I found the first podcast to be very concise and understandable. The main point that I thought was the most thought-provoking was the different impact that cultural relativism has on every single person in the world. Going off of the circumcision debate, I have never looked at that argument from the other side of the lens, meaning that those women who do choose to get circumcised in fact do not see the practice as genital mutilation. My main question about cultural relativism is whether or not people use this tactic to their advantage to justify actions? Specifically, do people use cultural relativism as a crutch to get away with doing or saying whatever they want?<\/p>\n
The reading was also very eye-opening to me as I learned more about the correlation between morality and the truth. I made connections to 2020 in several ways, but the two main connections were the BLM movement and COVID-19. The BLM movement was heavily criticized and politicized when in reality, people failed to acknowledge the lack of morality in regards to police brutality. People fail to admit that whether or not a person did something illegal or not, it is morally incorrect to use the power of being a police officer to kill the people you are sworn to protect and serve. Mask wearing is another thing. Many people still feel that wearing masks is pointless and that COVID-19 is not as bad as it seems to be. The fact of the matter is it is morally correct to wear a mask because it protects both yourself and others. Regardless of a person\u2019s view on the pandemic, wearing a mask is morally correct in this detrimental time. Finally, I drew connections to various arguments that we have studied over the course of this semester but this time was more critical of the way in which we evaluated premises and beliefs. It is extremely difficult to put personal beliefs to the side in order to successfully diagram and understand an argument.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found the first podcast to be very concise and understandable. The main point that I thought was the most thought-provoking was the different impact that cultural relativism has on every single person in the world. Going off of the circumcision debate, I have never looked at that argument from the other side of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}