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Realism

re indenpent of any say-so.Subjectivism is the idea that there no ethical facts that ethical statements are not saying what “is” the case only what “ought” to be the case. However I reject this because facts coexist as different part of reality. Therefore just because something is not the case does not mean that it is still not right or wrong. Just because rape does happen does not stop it from being wrong. Consider the situation of female genital mutilation it occurs often to little girls over in the Middle East and Africa. They have parts of their genital removed often with dirty tools and no drugs. The people in the region use the Divine Command Theory and say that God says to do it, they use ethical relativism and say that society says to do it, existentialism and leave it up to the individual, or subjectivism it just is. How can any of those be right? The answer is they can not women are suffering from long-term physiological, sexual, and psychological effects due to the practice. I believe that female genital mutilation is wrong and that is not based on anyone’s say-so it just is.In conclusion, there are ethical facts in the real world and those facts just are. While it is true people do disagree on what is right on wrong that does not change the rightness or wrongness of an action....

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