Cultural Relativism

This video is part of both Peter Singer's Practical Ethics class ( • Practical Ethics Course ) and his Effective Altruism class (th-cam.com/users/playlist?list....
Professor Peter Singer discusses cultural relativism and whether it is true. Professor Singer will discuss both descriptive cultural relativism, the idea that different cultures have different moralities, and normative cultural relativism, the idea that everyone ought to do what their culture judges right.

[@crushinnihilism]

Successfully game theory strategies for a species to survive makes morality objective?

[@arnedomi]

Really? Maybe not everyone agreed with slavery tho? So if some people didn't, it was possible to oppose it in that culture and that time. I bet the slaves didn't condone slavery.

[@crushinnihilism]

Well, historical records suggest a lot of slaves preferred slavery.
Its really hard for us moderns to imagine being cool as slaves. We live in a technological world where all our needs are met instantaneously.
They lived in a world where suffering and death were nearby frequently. In thise conditions slavery may have been preferable.
Also, socialists now want to be slaves so I think its not that forgien of a concept.

[@charlytaylor1748]

@@crushinnihilism There are some surprising letters from slaves who wanted a return 'to the old days' - out of having a very restricted choice of possibilities, I can only assume, or maybe even the very idea of a good life on earth had been denied to them. I'm snooping around here 'cause I did a vid on this recently th-cam.com/video/T52I6BxCJC4/w-d-xo.html

[@GunesAnacak]

​@@crushinnihilismI do noy know abput the time of dlavey but it is for sure that one can oppose to the rthics of that culture and era.For example today we see this in vegans

[@crushinnihilism]

@@GunesAnacak ill try to spell it out slower.
The reason WHY you oppose those ethical practices is that you live in world that wildly different.
Had you lived in a world like theirs then you may not have opposed their ethics.
Vegans oppose consuming meat because they can conveniently buy plant based foods at a grocery store. Of course the farming and transportation require animal products to do.

[@GunesAnacak]

@@crushinnihilism the example ı give is not just fpr tpday vegans,you said in the time of slavery for example dlaves oreffered to have slaves but there were still people who were opposed to havr slaves.What ı am simply saying is that it is possible to have a different ethical view than the society and time you live in.Also ı don't see your point in the last 2 sentences vegans oppose conuming meat simply because they think it is unethical to cause harm unnecessarily and they think that eating animal products is unnecessary.You can't stop crop deaths it is impossible but you should reduce them if you can, same goes by thr transportation.Also even if there werent special plant based products like beyond meat ı am pretty sure one could still be vegan and there have been poeple like that.One example is al maarri a poet who lived in 973-10057