Cultural relativism is a refinement of cultural absolutism, in order better to deal with the empirically undeniable discrepancies in moral judgements between different individuals and groups. Basically:
Cultural absolutism: us good, them evil.
Cultural relativism: under these social circumstances, those moral preferences are likely to emerge.
Clearly, the former is easier to handle than the latter, which has advantages in some situations.
Cultural absolutism: us good, them evil.
Cultural relativism: under these social circumstances, those moral preferences are likely to emerge.
Clearly, the former is easier to handle than the latter, which has advantages in some situations.