Ethics and Relativism

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Considering the fact that Relativism forsakes “the search for an ethical theory” (Mosser, 2010, p. 50), and states more accurately that “we should recognize that there are no universal or general ethical standards, that one's ethical view is relative to one's culture, society, tradition, religion, worldview, or even one's own individual values” (Mosser, 2010, p. 50), and In light of the fact that Relativists see things in accordance to culture, genders, religion, and so on; they appear “to allow that we can simply “agree to disagree” (Mosser, 2010, p. 51). The moral concepts of beauty and virginity might be difficult moral questions to accept by the relativists as well as problematic in giving justification to.

When it comes to Virginity various cultures regard the virginity of a woman before she is married in their own way. Within the modern western society we do not hold that much importance on this concept; in fact we consider sex before marriage to be salubrious in regards to sexual-identity. On the contrary, there are a lot of cultures which place a very important value in the virginity of their women, such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania” (Brunner, 2007, para. 4); “In Egypt, the health ministry banned FGM in 2007 despite pressure from some (though not all) Islamic groups”("Female genital mutilation," 6 December 2011, table 3.1). When it comes to Islamic women, according to Sheikh Yussuf al Badri of Al-Azhar Islamic University, in Cairo “that it is the reason they are virtuous unlike western women who run off to thei...

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