Topic: It is true to me?

There are a lot of things in the world which each person has each opinion about they are right or wrong. Relativists may have the belief that everything is relative absolutely. Relativism is also one of the four foundations of the world views. Based on the context, culture, religion...in which we are living, we hold that ethics and truth and have the answer for the question “It is true for me?”

In different culture, people has a different perspective of behaving, thinking and feeling. Everyone has a different personal opinion of food, clothing, lifestyle.. For example, chewing is banned in Singapore. Marriage is the process by which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. In my opinion, it is true that the marriage is the joining of two people. However, in some African countries such as Nigeria, Kenya... They accept that a man can get married with more than one wife, therefore, when the beliefs conflict with our own, we do not try to judge whether a society’s custom is right or wrong. The difference in religion also makes the diversity. Other religious perspectives may be objectivist about our own perspective. We eat pork, but it is a forbidden food for Muslims. It is immoral to some Middle Eastern Islamic countries to drink alcohol or play gamble.

Abortion which is defined the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo before viability. In many countries, abortion is legal. It is a way for governments to control the overpopulation in some developing countries and raise the standard of living. In my opinion, I always think that abortion is wrong. A baby is a human. God created man and no one has a right to take other lives. However, in some contexts, it is an acceptable action to me for example to save the lives of pregnant. Sometimes, we hold to the concept that right or wrong are not absolutes, but can be determined by each individual.

In the past, the society gave no equal right to the women. They had suffered the discrimination and the subordination. They could not control their lives. Nowadays, we are living in the world that women's roles have been expanded from what they traditionally were. The women become more independent. The perception of people changed over time, and now we can affirm that gender equality is totally true.

Each person has a each view about the truth. If everything is relative to people, they would have different ways to judge they are right or wrong, ethical or not. If that standard of right and wrong is based on relativism, then it is not a standard at all because it is true for me but may not true for others. Therefore, in my opinion, sometimes the views should base on a common foundation of absolutes.

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