Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Benedict tells of the Northwest Coast Indians that when the chief's sister died the tribe set out to find the culprits who killed her and kill them.
2. Ruth Benedict claims that what is normal for a culture is not what is moral in that culture.
3. Benedict states that morality is culturally defined.
4. Ethical relativism cannot logically make a claim that tolerance is universally good, since it also claims that there are no universal values.
5. One of the arguments against ethical relativism is that the theory does not distinguish between the actual morality and the professed morality of a culture.
1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True
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A) conversation, fellowship B) truth, wealth C) value, providence D) reserve, loquaciousness