How do you determine what is right or what is wrong? Personally, I feel that within ourselves we know when we have done well and when we have done badly. That may not stop someone from doing something wrong, but, deep down, I think they know they're doing something wrong. I believe someone knows when they have hurt someone else's feelings or caused harm to someone. Consequently, I do not create a culture that has the merit of determining what is right or wrong. Within this report, ethical relativism will be defined and discussed how it relates to right and wrong, as well as the corruption I discussed in the previous assignment. Ethical relativism is the theory about moral norms practiced within society to determine whether an action is right or wrong. In other words, a society's practices judge its own moral standards. In ethical relativism, the anthropologist believed that there were no standards applicable throughout the universe for all people at all times. Objectively nothing is right or wrong. In determining the definition of right and wrong, it depends on a particular culture or the prevailing view of the historical period. Majority rule determines the terms of right and wrong. Moral practices are different in many cultures. There are cultural practices that you would expect to be immoral all over the world, but they are not. For example, I don't understand how anyone can think it's normal to eat loved ones who have died. In some cultures, this is normal behavior. It is normal for others to burn the dead. In my culture we bury the dead. Since I think it is inhumane for someone to eat their loves after death, it doesn't give me the right to tell them that they are wrong and I am right. This is the means behind ethical relativism. T...... half of the paper ......rk to eliminate the bad behavior of those who steal. In my opinion, I believe that ethical relativism is a good method to use to prevent or limit the corrupt behavior of theft. The reason is that some people may feel that it is okay to steal from others. Within that particular group of people, this may be normal for them. According to ethical relativism, the norm is what applies to the decision of what is right or wrong. Since we have laws in place against theft, the norm is not stealing and may even determine that the majority has imposed the law prohibiting theft. Works Cited Keown, A. J., (2010). Personal Finance: Turning Money into Wealth. Boston: Prentice Hall. Velasquez, M., and Andre, C., and Shanks, T., and Meyer, S. J., and M. J., (1992). Ethical relativism. Retrieved from: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/ethicalrelativism.html