The Strength Of Moral Relativism

Having the moral belief that each person has the responsibility of their own moral standards and that each person understand that others around them may not have the same moral standards as others is called moral relativism. Cultural moral relativism is pertaining to another’s person culture to set the moral standard for other people in the community. The difference from both is that the standards are set by an individual’s own personal beliefs, as oppose to the other, a person’s beliefs are impacted by the community that they happen to be a part of.
One of the strength of individual moral relativism is that people are able and willing to endure the beliefs of others in a society that involves a lot of different cultures in which helps unite them together. As oppose to the weakness, not having a large community base for the moral standards. A strength in a culture relativism is in fact that it does help create a recognizing sense of community in a culture where individuals have similar beliefs. A weakness will be that some cultural might. For example: The same sex marriage standpoint that many Christian’s churches stand for and do not agree upon. Many have the belief that God created a man and woman so that they can unite together and create a child. Many people still till this day stand to that belief.

Kohlberg had six stages that were divided into three levels, pre-conventional morality, conventional morality, and post-conventional morality.

He was interested in the different ways individuals acted upon. The first level was learning morals, manners, wrong and right, and obedience. The second level of the 6 stages is basically acting in your own best interest. Meaning, following the rules and or following your morals. For example: “you scratch my back, I scratch yours”. The level basically indicates to take others feelings into consideration, meaning, understand others culture, values and morals. For example: fitting and trying to please the next

person.
I made an ethical stance at work by helping a customer, she was elder woman, I will around 65 years old, she had dropped off her husband at the airport, they were already running late and she had no idea where she had parked and she had already been looking for her vehicle for over 3 hours! Remind you, Los Angeles airport is not so small, it’s one of the largest airports, and one of the busiest airports, we have 7 different parking structures in which hold over 2,000 vehicles, the lady was exhaust!, I briefly ask her a few questions so that I can have a better idea where to start looking. It took my about an hour but I was able to locate her vehicle, I was glad she came across me because not many would of went out of there way especially if your were heading to clock out which that was my case, I ended up doing overtime and it was well worth it. It was something good I did for someone and I felt great to be able to bring a smile and some sort of relief to her. During the 8 years I been working with the company I have made many smile, laugh, and have made their experience at LAX a little more memorable, and with that it makes me happy and I love doing what I do.