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Why is morality not necessarily tied to culture?
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Morality cannot be tied to culture because cultures change. If cultures change, then what is good today may be bad tomorrow or vice versa. Additionally, one culture’s morals may be opposite of another’s cultures, so who can say that culture determines morality? An absolute moral standard is never secured if a culture determines morality.
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Culture can be changing, the beliefs, systems, practices put into place, but morality is the higher law that we are holding ourselves as a community of peoples to which usually includes the same basic foundation of murder is wrong, etc. The Ted Bundy quote was a great proof that believing in a relativism, or a higher moral power, does not contribute to a society/culture that we want ..to be/developed into. Remembering what one culture believed and practiced at one time doesn’t necessarily hold true today and that the diversity of cultures on a basic level of morality do not diverge all that much, all still believing in an objective moral truth.
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Because God is the source, the standard, and who determines what is good and mainly He does not change.
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Morality stems from the Creator–God. God provided the basis for understanding morality as the lawgiver. He gave each human being a conscience that is aware of good and evil. Culture is man-made most frequently and, as a result, is not written onto the heart of man from the Creator and lawgiver. Culture also varies throughout the world while God’s law is consistent.
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Morality is not tied to culture. God is a God of laws and order. To say that morality is tied to culture means that depends in where you live and the environment you live, right things in one culture might be wrong in the other one. But there are basics things like to kill someone, that is wrong in any place around the world, the same as kidnapping or sexual abuse. Some others like to have more than one wife could be legal in some cultures but that does not mean that is right, cultures can make mistakes too.
