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Cultural relativism holds that "Stealing is bad" means
{ 1 } - "Stealing leads to more pain than pleasure for society."
{ 2 } - "My cultured relatives disapprove of stealing."
{ 3 } - "I disapprove of stealing."
{ 4 } - "Stealing is socially disapproved."
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Cultural relativism holds that "Stealing is bad" means
{ 1 } - "Stealing leads to more pain than pleasure for society."
{ 2 } - "My cultured relatives disapprove of stealing."
{ 3 } - "I disapprove of stealing."
{ 4 } - "Stealing is socially disapproved."
This is utilitarianism. CR looks, not to pleasure/pain consequences, but to what society approves of.
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Cultural relativism holds that "Stealing is bad" means
{ 1 } - "Stealing leads to more pain than pleasure for society."
{ 2 } - "My cultured relatives disapprove of stealing."
{ 3 } - "I disapprove of stealing."
{ 4 } - "Stealing is socially disapproved."
If you guess this poorly, you probably don't have any cultured relatives!
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Cultural relativism holds that "Stealing is bad" means
{ 1 } - "Stealing leads to more pain than pleasure for society."
{ 2 } - "My cultured relatives disapprove of stealing."
{ 3 } - "I disapprove of stealing."
{ 4 } - "Stealing is socially disapproved."
This is subjectivism. CR looks, not at what the individual feels, but at what society feels.
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Cultural relativism holds that "Stealing is bad" means
{ 1 } - "Stealing leads to more pain than pleasure for society."
{ 2 } - "My cultured relatives disapprove of stealing."
{ 3 } - "I disapprove of stealing."
{ 4 } - "Stealing is socially disapproved."
CR says that "X is good" means "X is socially approved."
Likewise, "X is bad" would mean "X is socially disapproved."
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