Ethical Relativism

Majority of people have rejected the theory of ethical relativism due to many reasons. A few claims that while the moral practices of societies may differ, the elemental of moral principles underlying these practices do not differ. For instance, in some societies they practice that if the parents reached a certain age, they were killed to reach afterlife and would live a better life if they reached it when they were physically active and vigorous. In our society, we would never practice that in our culture, but we would agree with these societies on the underlying moral principle of the duty to care for our parents. Societies will differ in practices and the application on what things they practice but we would have to agree on the principles
In other words, we can see what other cultures practice and believe in and still hold all these cultures practices and beliefs morally wrong. The practice of slavery in Pre-Civil War U.S. society or the practice of apartheid in South Africa is wrong despite the beliefs of those societies. The treatment of the Jews in Nazi society is morally culpable regardless of the moral beliefs of Nazi society. Many philosophers criticize ethical relativism because of its ramifications for individual moral beliefs. These philosophers say that if the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on a society's norms, then it states that they must stay true to their norms of their society and if they get off the path of their norms, that is considered of acting immorally. In other words, this means that if I am a member of a society that believes that racial or sexist practices are morally passable, then I must accept those practices as morally right. Furthermore, members of the same society may hold different views on practices. In the United States, for example, a variety of moral opinions exist on matters ranging from animal experimentation to