. Suppose a mother is part of a community that generally supports the idea that both parents should work and contribute to a middle class standard of living. Furthermore, she is also part of a religious community that believes that mothers should remain at home and raise children even if it means having a lower standard of living. According to the theory of ethical relativism, the mother should do which of the following?
A. She should work as then she would be following the moral conventions of the larger, more inclusive culture.
B. She should stay at home as that would allow her to follow the moral conventions of her religion, which trumps all other groups.
C. She can choose to either work or stay at home as she will be moral in either case. She would still be following the moral conventions of at least one of the groups.
D. Ethical relativism fails to say what she should do, since she is a member of two different cultures with conflicting moral values. This illustrates one of the shortcomings of ethical relativism.
C. She can choose to either work or stay at home as she will be moral in either case. She would still be following the moral conventions of at least one of the groups.
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