Moral Dilemma Relating to Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism

Moral Dilemma Relating to Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism
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Moral Dilemma relating to Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism
Cultural diversity Is the differences in sexual orientation, religion, race, and other social norms. A moral dilemma is a scenario in which an individual has to decide between two or more options, which seems to involve ethical or unethical conduct depending on one's point of view. For this assignment, the situation involves a middle-aged female in the advanced stages of stomach cancer. For this patient, all possibilities are explored and nothing more can be done rather than pain relief and waiting for their natural death. The patient and her husband opt to have euthanasia to end her suffering. The physician is confronted with the dilemma of whether to watch the patient's anguish in pain or help them die peacefully to end their suffering according to their requests. The dilemma involves physician-assisted suicide in a desperate medical case ethics
A moral relativist holds that different individuals have different opinions on what is morally correct and acceptable (Pölzler, 2018). Also, it means that there is no set of given principles to describe the morality of different individuals. Therefore, a subjective moral relativist would be open to listening to the side of euthanasia; those who believe it should be done and those who oppose the procedure. Further, Cultural relativism is the ideology that individuals’ practices and beliefs should not be judged but understood. Further, our perception of what is right or wrong strange or normal should not be a key concept in judging an individual’s decision (Lorenz et al., 2020). Thus, according to cultural relativism, we should strive to understand other people using their cultural context. However, it i...