"All ethical statements are relative." By examining the justifications for - and implications of - making this claim, decide whether or not you agree with it.

The statement puts forward the idea that what is right or wrong and good or bad is not unconditional but variable and relative, depending on the person, circumstances, or social state of affairs. The view is as ancient as Protagoras, a leading Greek Sophist of the 5th century BC, and as modern as the scientific approaches of sociology and anthropology. From this view rises the theory of Ethical Relativism, which states that all ethical statements …

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