Today, we live in a rapidly evolving society, which as a result, increasingly brings people of various cultures to closer interaction with one another. These interactions have the potential to cultivate into either positive or negative relationships given the degree of courtesy and sensitivity that people display towards other cultural groups. These displays of behaviour are relative to an important concept: cultural relativism. Cultural relativism holds the opinion that there is no universal morality that is common amongst all cultures. In an article written by James Rachels, an American philosopher, he breaks down the different challenges involved with cultural relativism, beginning with the list of general beliefs that cultural relativists can agree upon. They are: because different societies have different moral codes there is no objective standard that can be used to judge one societal code better than another, the moral code of one’s own society has no special status, there are no universal truths in ethics, the moral code of a society determines what is right within that society, and the belief that it would be arrogant to judge the conduct of other peoples. The remainder of Rachels’ article is spent explaining the challenges with this viewpoint including the differences between cultural outlooks, the consequences of taking cultural relativism seriously, why there is less disagreement than there has thought to have been about the values amongst different cultures, and what can be learned though cultural relativism. Through his explanations, some stating pros and some stating cons about embracing such a viewpoint, he ultimately rejects the idea of cultural relativism, explaining that while it is an attractive theory and humans can accept the points it suggests, one can be able to do just that without accepting the theory as a whole. In addition, due to the similarities in topic between the idea of cultural...