Question

From the standpoint of normative ethical theory, which tries to determine what we should do, what is the problem with descriptive cultural relativism?

A.	The truth about what people do believe does not settle whether they are correct to believe it.

B.	Some true moral claims are not held universally.

C.	The fundamental factual claims it makes are false.

D.	Nobody, relativist or not, can simply describe ethical views without also making ethical judgments.

Answer 1

the answer is D, as the normative ethical theory talks about everything being right or wrong, good or bad is based universally and not based on cultures.

According to the normative ethical theory everything in a culture or society is ought to act/be what it should be/act, basically we ought not to kill as taking a life is ethically wrong, absence or reduction of pain is essential and such moral behaviors which should be universal. While descriptive cultural relativism is one which states that what is ethically wrong or right is bound by our cultural upbringing and that what one culture may regard as right may not be regarded as right by them.