The Moral Relativism of Female Circumcision

A moral relativist would probably say that female circumcision is okay for certain cultural groups. It's right for them. It's wrong for us. That doesn't give any hint of how you might resolve a conflict between those two different groups. So I'm really interested to know how you'd apply this pragmatic approach faced with a cultural relativist like that. Well, of course often the kind of remark you just cited is a sort of plea for live and let live or toleration or possibly even an injunction that we mustn't interfere. There's something wrong about imposing our will on other people. In some cases I'm not sure it's true at all.