Moral Relativism Analysis

In my opinion, this form of punishment is barbaric and inhumane. No matter what culture we are in, nobody should suffer through this type of pain especially for a crime that we do not consider as something as serious as adultery. For instance, in Canada, we deal with adulterers by offering them the choice of divorcing. In the Muslim culture, having extramarital love affairs is as serious as we would think murdering a person would be. Obviously, we both have different moral differences when it comes to the subject of adultery. This concludes that Rachels was right about different cultures believing in different moral codes (Rachels 3). Moral relativism is "concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures" (Moral Relativism). By not agreeing to their type of cultural tradition, I am saying that moral relativism does not relate to this case and that I am an

Stoning a person is sadistic and atrocious. It is something I would never believe that could happen to such a defenseless human being. The worst part is sometimes they are wrongly found guilty of adultery. An example of this was a woman named Soraya Manutchehri (The Stoning of Soraya Movie). She was a woman who lived in Iran and whom was falsely accused of adultery by her husband who was planning to leave her in order to marry a young girl (Soraya Manutchehri). He did not want to support both families, nor give back Soraya's dowry, thus, he contemplated this whole plan in order to get her stoned to death (Soraya Manutchehri). Not only was she falsely accused, but also in the end, he was the one who was truly committing the crime and nobody believed her because in that religion, women's words are worth nothing over men's. Therefore she was killed and disowned by her whole family for not committing a single