Cultural Relativism

I believe there could never be a set law on human rights that affects every individual in the world. This is only because a lot of people don’t follow the same ethics as everybody else. One groups culture completely differs from another group. As stated in one of Darius’s stories on what the Callatians do with their dead compared to the Greeks. Lets say for example that you were to set a human right law stating that you could no longer kill. I remember doing a report on the people of India and it stated that if a man were to disown his wife, whether he cheated on her or not, the wife’s family was , by their cultural way of living, able to kill the husband. So as you see the hypothetical universal law stating that you could no longer kill somebody would affect the culture and way of live in other parts of the world.

Cultural relativism is a major detail to look over when you think about what the universal laws of Human Rights should contain. In the end all the laws are going to affect a certain group of people in the wrong way, which might end up changing their way of life.

Once again it depends on who is asking the question on what should be considered a universal human right and what shouldn’t be considered one. I believe that although you may have a set of laws stating the rights people have; someone is going to end up breaking them anyways. It’s hard enough making laws for a country. Imagine making laws for the world. Who exactly has the say on that? At this rate you will have a better chance at living life happily just by listening to a Bob Marley song, because in the end they will end up doing the same thing.