Moral relativism

There are many attempts to motivate moral absolutism: religion, science, the golden rule...

I would however like to argue for the opposite. We should not try to find an absolute foundation for our moral. Instead we should learn how to work with moral relativism.

Recently there was an interesting event happening in the world ski cup. A Swedish top runner had an accident and broke her pole. She needed to get at least second place to win the world cup. Closes contestant was another Swede and she slowed down to let her college with the broken pole get the second place in the race.

After the race, the Swede who slowed down was disqualified for poor sportsmanship because of the slowing down.

I would like to argue that what she did was moral, helping a national who would have lost the win due to an "unfair" or "unfortunate" cause. However, at the same time it was morally correct by the skiing association to disqualify the runner. Even if the two are mutually contradictory some how, they can both be morally right. It depends on the moral context.

We need to start managing relative moralism and stop trying to find absolute morals. That will hamper our moral development. Understanding moral relativism will also surely help resolve many issues in the world where we can increase our understanding on others moral stands; understanding the fact will always be better than not doing it. We do not have to accept them. But understand that they are relative. They are relative to some set of people.