1. Go online to research honor killing. (Some starting points: CBSNews.com, CNN.com, USAToday.com, and WashingtonPost.com.) What do you think a cultural relativist might say about the morality of honor killing? How about a moral objectivist?

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2. Do a web search on "universal human rights" and look closely at some of the official and unofficial perspectives on the subject from the United Nations and various member nations. The UN officially endorses the doctrine of universal human rights, and many nations embrace this moral perspective without reservation. Nevertheless some countries reject international criticism of the abuses of human rights within their own borders, declaring that their countries cannot be judged by a universal standard but by their own, individual moral norms. Do you agree with this view? That is, do you accept the notion of universal human rights or do you favor a form of cultural relativism, as some countries apparently do?

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