
Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism
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The Moral Relativist Case for Eating Beef
The eating practices and kind of prohibitions are complicated because they tend to be bound up with certain religious traditions and rituals. So the fact that some people think that eating beef is acceptable, others don't, may be culturally relative. But we have a very good model for explaining how that works, and that is the model that's provided by cases of etiquette in general.
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