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Military Draft And Moral Response

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Military Draft and Moral Response

Relativist: The idea behind relativism is that the assumptions about what is “right” and “wrong” have no universal truth or objective validity. The relativist also believes “right” and “wrong” are relative to each culture’s perception (which is known as cultural relativism) or to each individuals perception (known as individual relativism). Because “right” and “wrong”, according to cultural relativists, has no universal truth one can’t conclude that the issuing of a draft is either “right” nor “wrong” in every case throughout our society. One could presume that in a society where a military draft has been a past-time, the majority of the population could believe that a draft would be “right” according to cultural relativism, but each individuals perception of the draft depends on many different factors. What is the background and influences that the culture has put on the society? What have the individuals been taught to conclude whether a military draft is acceptable or not? These would be just a few examples of how one could conclude whether or not a military draft would be “right” or “wrong” in our society. In a country where communism is present, the beliefs of the people could and would be totally different on the subject of a military draft than those beliefs of a democratic society. Because of this there are no justifications for intercultural critique. Meaning that one can’t justify whether the draft would be “right” or “wrong” because of the fact that each culture, or person for that matter, could have different beliefs about a military draft; therefore, the act of issuing a draft is dependant on the culture that it is asserted towards. With this being said, because one person may believe that the draft is correct, doesn’t mean that every person within that culture would agree. Whether the fact that the draft is...

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