Is Morality always relative?

Question

Any good answer will be greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Answer 1

yes

Moral is one person's way of handling in every day life. How he uses this depends on how he has been brought up by parents, by society and by friends. What is accepted in his environment will put pressure on how he chose to act.

Ethic, however, is the theory that explains morality. If you have a moral dilemma, you can read ethics to find words to explain different opinions on the dilemma.

Answer 2

I just completed my first manuscript, and this is a question I answered. The answer is, it is not. This is because there are some actions that have no sustaining effect on society, which are the things that you and I do for pleasure. These are the things that we do for enjoyment such as playing leisurely sports. If we play football without malice and one of us is hurt, it is not a moral issue. Injury is part of playing the game. It has not moral implication. This is a very important question because there are a numerous amount of actions that have no sustaining effect on society that we view with moral responsibility. If two people get together for sex and both are physically healthy, honest and use protection, this act has no sustaining effect on society. Unfortunately, a lot of our enjoyments are labeled as morally culpable because we have been mislead into believing that we should not be enjoying our lives, which is the furthest thing from the truth.

Answer 3

Since morality has to do with the way one individual's actions impact on the feelings and thoughts of other people then it is always relative. If you lived in your own private universe with no other living being to affect (including animals) then there would be no need for morality. Unless you think you'll be judged by God... But isn't he supposed to have said 'do unto others as you would have done to yourself?'. And in this sense 'he' would be 'the other'. You can have a sense of morality when there are other minds to offend.

Answer 4

relative to what?
that would depend what the morality was based on, or applied to..

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
—Mark Twain
What Is Man?, 1906

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
—Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
—Nathaniel Emmons

Answer 5

Morality is our gift to ourselves. It is easy to give into to temptations. Our society has become very selfish and me oriented not caring about the consequences of our actions; you know acting first and thinking later. I am from a different generation and morals is part of my fiber. I try to be morally strong because I don't want to disappoint anyone especially myself. I have never been sorry for what I haven't done but there have been times I was very sorry for what I did do. If in doubt no is always a good answer...

Answer 6

Great question. A follow-up question would be who's judging? The same crime, evidence and witnesses could result in significantly different punishments depending on who's juding the case.

If there is an ultimate Creator, God, then He is the only one who does not see morality as relative. But, even He does not judge based on the action, but by the heart, as shown by his way of punishing murderers through plauges, but turning other murderers "David" into kings. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

You really need to decide for yourself what is moral and what is not. People can guide you, but not tell you. Religions are good guide, but you need to make your own moral choices. Why is something right or wrong? Because the Bible says so? Not good enough.

So yes, morality is relative to the person making the moral decision - or even their culture.

Answer 8

No. Morality is not relative. Morality as grounded in human nature is the same for all who share human nature. This answer assumes that what is good for a being depends on the nature of that being. What is good for a rabbit depends on the nature of the rabbit. What is good for a horse depends on the nature of a horse. To do what is contrary to a being's nature is to do what is evil.

Answer 9

gotta be, unless you are a fascist who wants to tell everyone else what is good.
there are many schools of thought that disagree with Moral relativism but they fail any deep analysis
( such as utilitarianism, the greatest good for the geatest number. under that system of thought slavery is OK as it helps more people than it hurts)

Answer 10

No. Murder is ALWAYS immoral. Sexual abuse is ALWAYS immoral. Abandoning kids, while you are living and able, before they can fend for themselves, is ALWAYS immoral. Torture is ALWAYS immoral.