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Title: Ethical Relativism as Essence of Moral
(Chosen Topic 6: Argue why Ethical Relativism might be the truth or reality of what morals are)
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Introduction
    The term moral is perceived as a variable, which determines the characterization of an action within two parallel groups – good and bad, based on the collective impact it casts on a group of people, developing the idea of ethics. Despite the universally accepted features of moral and ethics, its tendency of offering the diverse values of different group of people and their values, contradicting the set parameters by being good and bad for two different groups of people at the same time, debates piled up. I, as a philosophy enthusiast, was greatly moved by the nature of moral, ethics and its functionality in a relative state. Thus, when I came across the topic of ethical relativism, which countered the arguments of different moral and ethical values in a relative state, I came to develop a better idea about ethical relativism as the core of moral, which has diverse meaning to diverse scenario. Hence, I chose the topic.
Ethical Relativism as Essence of Moral
The term Ethical Relativism, assessed from a literal perspective gives an idea about its implication of ethical values in a relative format. As stated by Kopelman, ethical relativism is the philosophy, which successfully interprets multicultural values, which often come in contrasting positions. A narrower perspective of ethics and moral values hint at actions, which benefit a group of people in same format, as good or ethical, and the ones that hamper the wellbeing of the same group, as unethical or bad, consistently ignoring the real nature of the act and their alignment with the social needs of the specific group. As mentioned by Zou and Chan, ethical relativism propagates the idea that no action is good or bad in their true sense. They are only categorized as good or bad in the context of the social group, among which they are used. This makes the issue arising out of different social categorization of a common aspect by providing details about the context under which the mentioned aspects tend to cater their different category.
    Ethical relativism not only helps in understanding the fact that there is no consistently significant ethical parameter, but it also justifies the changes in the same society over time, placing aspects from ethical to unethical sections, depending on the cultural change, social shift and evolution of social perspective. As affirmed by Collier‐Spruel et al., in a society, over a period of time, the norms of ethics changes as the human perspective is influenced by economic, political, cultural and social formats and...