... than fostering tolerance and promoting acceptance, it seems that cultural relativism provides legitimate support for the deprivation of human rights across the world. As Neil Levy argues 'moral relativism leaves us unable to make necessary criticisms of human rights abuses, of the systematic oppression of women, indeed, of the very destruction wreaked by the colonial powers on their colonies. Judging ... ought to do, and then it could be argued that it follows we ought to optimise our actions by being moral. Cultural relativism does not allow for this, and so falling into moral dec...

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