Mаp the fоllоwing аrgument in MindMup using аnоther tab. After you have finished mapping this argument for Mastery Check 4.3, in MindMup, click File --> Share and type rsaucedo@lamar.edu to share your maps with me for grading, just as you did for the MindMup - Honorlock Test.“Ethical relativism maintains that there are no objective moral facts, and asserts instead that right and wrong is nothing more than a matter of opinion. The most common variety of ethical relativism is cultural relativism which maintains that ethical judgments are simply expressions of a culture’s moral code. According to cultural relativism, a culture’s moral code determines what’s morally right and wrong within that culture in much the same way that a game’s rules determine what moves are permissible or impermissible within that game. Although it may appear attractive at first, cultural relativism isn’t the correct theory of ethics. First, because cultural relativism maintains that there are no cross-cultural ethical standards by which one culture can pass moral judgment on another, cultural relativism would have us believe that we can never correctly identify another culture’s practices as unethical. In at least some cases, however, we can correctly identify another culture’s practices as unethical. Didn’t we justifiably criticize Nazi Germany’s practices as unethical? Can’t we correctly judge the apartheid of South Africa to be unethical? Second, according to cultural relativism there is no such thing as moral progress because any assessment of the effect that things are better now than they used to be would require us to compare the current state of affairs to the former state of affairs using some set of objective criteria. In many instances, however, we have witnessed moral progress. Doesn’t the abolition of slavery constitute moral progress? What about the expansion of rights for women?”
WELL-CRAFTED ARGUMENTS: The fоllоwing pаssаge cоntаins an argument. Indicate a well-crafted version of it. Do NOT add unstated premises. Make sure that you indicate any subconclusions and supporting premises. Leave out any “extraneous verbiage” (discounts, assurances, hedges, and repetition). While some people seem to be under the impression that humans are making moral progress, I submit that the twentieth century is a movement backwards into violence and cruelty. For in spite of the fact that science and technology have developed rapidly, the greatest mass murders in history have all occurred in this century. Millions dies on the battlefields of World Wars I and II. Six million Jews died in Nazi prison camps. And from 1917 until the end of Stalin's reign, 20 million people died in Soviet work camps. More recently, we have Pol Pot's slaughter of the Cambodians as well as the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.