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Moral relativism is the opinion that there is no absolute or universal set of ethical principles. There exists no single accurate morality, and whether something is right or wrong, it is a relative matter. Many people find it appealing because it encourages cultural tolerance (Blackford, 2016). The textbook explains that something can be right to one moral set of reference and be wrong in relation to another. Wreen (2018) explains that moral relativism is compatible with moral subjectivity and moral objectivity. Moral judgments correctness depends on psychological characteristics of the arbiter and sociological facts about the arbiter. Moral relativism is possible because there are considerable differences in the moralities that individuals accept and do not seem to be based on actual differences in circumstance or disagreements about reality. It appears that there lacks an objective way of settling conflicts such as abortion, egoism, euthanasia and capital punishment. This then leads to the possibility of moral relativism.
A mother receives her daughter’s letter from her boyfriend and opens it. She thinks she has the right to know about her daughter’s life in relation to love. The boyfriend believes she has violated his friend’s privacy based on culture and values. Based on the above, it is right to say moral judgments are true to one and not valid to another, and there exists no unique thinker to assess the above. The problem of evil implies that both the design and the designer of the universe are wrong due to the prevalence of evil in the universe. It is a problem in that He is all good and powerful yet He allows, creates or permits the existence of evil (Wreen, 2018). There are various approaches to this problem. Theodicy: the traditional idea of God is constant with the existence of God. Transformation of evil changes the concept of evil to mean it is not evil. Process theology changes the plan of God as all good, all-knowing and all-powerful. Atheism argues there is no God hence no problem with evil. The most satisfying approach is theodicy which solves the problem of evil by eliminating the concepts that develop the problem in the first place. God concentrates on soul-making, and we are responsible for evil caused by Satan leading us astray.
References
Blackford, R. (2016). Moral Relativism(s). The Mystery of Moral Authority, 58-78. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137562708_5#citeas
Wreen, M. (2018). What Is Moral Relativism? Philosophy, 93(3), 337-354. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy/article/what-is-moral-relativism/F14B02FDE6ACF72A8D47F9906458920C\