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Cultural relativism holds that "Racism is good" means
{ 1 } - "Racism leads to more pleasure than pain for society."
{ 2 } - "I approve of racism."
{ 3 } - "Racism is socially approved."
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Cultural relativism holds that "Racism is good" means
{ 1 } - "Racism leads to more pleasure than pain for society."
{ 2 } - "I approve of racism."
{ 3 } - "Racism is socially approved."
This is utilitarianism. CR looks, not to pleasure/pain consequences, but to what society feels.
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Cultural relativism holds that "Racism is good" means
{ 1 } - "Racism leads to more pleasure than pain for society."
{ 2 } - "I approve of racism."
{ 3 } - "Racism is socially approved."
This is subjectivism. CR looks, not at what the individual feels, but at what society feels.
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Cultural relativism holds that "Racism is good" means
{ 1 } - "Racism leads to more pleasure than pain for society."
{ 2 } - "I approve of racism."
{ 3 } - "Racism is socially approved."
CR says that "X is good" means "X is socially approved."
If you lived in a society that approved of racism, you'd have to think that racism is good. You couldn't think for yourself on the issue and disagree with society.
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