Problem

Ethical vacuum


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Moral collapse
Moral relativism
Dependence on ethical decay
Moral pollution
Moral chaos
Decayed moral environment
Moral illiteracy
Moral vacuum
Moral uncertainty
Moral ambiguity
Moral myopia
Ethical relativism
Nature:

Moral relativism considers that something, such as abortion, can only be right or wrong in relation to one or another moral framework. Morality is then a human invention. The relevant moral principles are thus nothing but conventions that result from a process of tacit moral bargaining through which some groups can exert pressure on others in an effort to change the current moral conventions. This encourages the view that "anything goes" and that morality is just a matter of opinion. Relativism makes dialogue pointless, assuming that there is no binding truth or that partners in the dialogue are saying the same thing in different ways.

Broader Problems:
Behavioural deterioration
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean EnergyGOAL 15: Life on Land
Problem Type:
B: Basic universal problems
Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST