What’s, according to Rachels, is appealing about cultural relativism? Why might you accept the view? Why does Rachels think you should reject the view?

James Rachels, “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism”
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(1) What’s, according to Rachels, is appealing about cultural relativism? Why might you accept the view? Why does Rachels think you should reject the view?
(2) Rachels’ challenge to cultural relativism depends crucially on appeals to intuition. For example, he notes that if cultural relativism were true, then we could not say that an anti-Semitic society is, insofar as anti-Semitic, defective. But, naturally, we do want to say such things. Anti-Semitism is a defect. So, the reasoning goes, we should think that cultural relativism is false. Is this form of argument convincing? What kind of evidence do our intuitions about morality provide?

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