Moral Relativism In Lord Of The Flies

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1 Louis Pojman states in his book how should we live that morality exists for 5 purposes, to keep society from falling apart, ameliorate human suffering, promote human flourishing, resolve conflicts of interest in just and orderly ways, and to assign praise and blame, reward and punishment, and guilt. Without morality, Pojman believes society could fall into a state of life similar to what the boys in lord of the flies created. He believes that humans have a natural instinct on what is moral or immoral, and that this instinct is what differentiates our society, then a society of children who are not yet morally developed (lord of the flies).
2 Moral relativism is the idea that moral truth is not the same for all people and it is relative to