Cultural Relativism - 'It's my culture'

Question 1

Resorting to ‘culture’ as a…

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defence or mitigating factor for violence/murder

Question 2

Heshu Yones’ father first to plea…

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‘honour’ in 2003 (UK)

Question 3

Renders invisible the individual free will, rational agent/actor status of the person(s) committing the…

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offence

Question 4

Contradicts foundations of western legal systems that are founded on (3)…

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free will
individualism
rationality

Question 5

Everyday us of ‘honour based violence’ legitimises this as a…

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defence

Question 6

Can White British perpetrators resort to ‘culture’ as a..

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defence?

Question 7

Inconsistent and culturally relative approaches to…

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justice?

Question 8

‘Understandable’ murders? Tassel’s brother-in-law sentence reduced to..

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manslaughter on appeal

Question 9

Cultural relativism is the notion that what is moral or immoral, good or bad, is particular to culture.
On this basis, one may conclude that it is wrong to criticise other culture’s practices as they are…

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‘just different’

Question 10

Britain is a multicultural society and so there are choices to be made between taking a cultural relativist approach or a more universalist one, which ensures everyone abides by the same..

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rules
standards
moral principles