Culture and a Man's Dying Wish

choice, and I would be afraid to make a decision which affects people completely strange to me. I doubt they would ask me in the first place, but were I to be asked my opinion I would say that the man should be buried in the special burial ground. My decision has nothing to do with my own beliefs about death and life and the sacredness of the body. Instead it is based on a variety of moral principles which attempt to conceptualize man's intuitive morality. The question is a difficult one, but by considering the bed of moral relativism on which it lies, and by thinking about it in the separate moral mentalities of egoism, utilitarianism, and Kantianism, one can come up with an adequate answer which will be the most favorable to all.
             The question of moral relativism is central to this scenario. Whose beliefs are right? Why should the man believe what his culture does? How could an outsider possibly give proper counsel? By considering the idea of the man's beliefs, it may come to mind that the culture should respect them. How can the community possibly say that the man is wrong? The man is basing his decision on his own mora
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