is morality relative to culture?

Answer 1

A lot of it is, yes. In some cultures, it's immoral/wrong to not grow a beard, in another, you must not wear your hat in church, etc.

But some morality is universal, IMO. Kindness, non-violence, not stealing, you know, that sort of thing...

Answer 2

Is Morality Relative To Culture

Answer 3

"Right is Right even if no-body's right.
Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong."
-Bishop Fulton Sheen

What a crock of ****.

ALL morals, ALL ethics, ALL taboos/mores/folkways are utterly arbitrary. There is no "divine" or "absolute" set of ethics and rules, and although I am not a christian I believe this still holds true for Christians. Their ten commandments will have no practical place in the society that follows ten thousand years from now. How can you "respect your mother and father" if you're cloned out of a test tube, or kill out of anger if everyone is immortal? And how can you hold the sabbath as a holy day if you live on an asteroid five hundred million miles from the international date line? Theoretically possible, so therefore must fall into consideration. Maybe God'll come down again and give us some new rules.

"Thou shalt not bifurcate your consciousness into more than three hundred instances"

"It is deemed unholy for a man to reproduce with his cloned and bewombed self unless he has a statistical chromosome difference of at least %15"

"Please don't alter the time line so that Jesus was rescued pre-mortem from the cross. I did that for a reason, you know. *wags finger warningly*"

Answer 4

I dont think so. I think that cultures, instead, emphasize or demphasize aspects of a universal moral code. People evaluate what is right and wrong across cultural backgrounds. They couldnt do that, if their morality was soley due to their culture and status in life. A buddhist can read elie wiesel's night, and weep just as much without being specifically a german jew during the time of the holocaust.

morality transcends culture.

Answer 5

'Morality' identifies actions and behavious
according a previously set (and shared)rank of values.
Evident that the 'previous settings' are the matter
These settings are the actual culture.
Yes then?. Not sure a thing.

It seems that human beings share a biological settings of values.
Example: in cultures adopting human sacrifices of 'priestesses',
the victim's family was given of a special higher status in society.
Was it the price paid to the family for an 'injust' biological damage?
If yes,some moral settings (e.g. :right to life ) are biological
and not cultural.

But the resistance to investigate on this point is huge:
Many animal species seem to follow moral rules (e.g.: mothers
dying to save a cub).Are animals 'moral' then? if yes, some religions
are in jeopardy, because the idea that human beings are 'special'
is their foundation ground.Are those of above mere istincts?As many say?

Good luck there.
Before someone 'sacrifies' me, i will run..but , to me.....
Basic moral settings are biological, independent from cultures.
All the rest simply depends.
Ciao

This answer is ' immoraly long' .hehehehe.

Answer 6

Absolutely. For example to Americans Cannibalism is seen as morally wrong. But in other cultures some forms of cannibalism are even woven into the religous aspects of a culture, avery highly looked upon.

Answer 7

It is relative to cultures.
Cultures must have formed into based on the living conditions, geographical situations, likes and dislikes etc. etc. For example let us take polygamy. During wars males died and females survived and left alone. Polygamy was the only solution. Some people now take it as an opportunity to have more that one wife. Among many other communities it treated as immorality.

Answer 8

mores is the root word for it. we have the christian morality as everyone knows. but the morals everyone still depends on the culture of ones place. even the morals in the bible still were all based on their culture during those times. what is wrong for me can be right someone else because of culture.

Answer 9

somehow it is.. still i believe that all human share a common sense of what is right and what is wrong by nature.. on which they base moral attitudes.. what seemingly different between cultures is what has been subject to conversion and effect of time and bla bla .. for sometimes what is known as a moral in one culture is not necessary the right option.. but in this case -becoming a tradition- right loses it power.. as they say habit is a second nature..
but if we could go to the origin of all things then we will find the same bases ..

Answer 10

It's definitely relative. Some cultures even have certain justifications for certain acts that we would consider violent or perverse. Morality in Sparta....much different from morality in Athens. Not sure what I'm talkin' bout...look it up...easy to find.