In this section, I will review flawed points in the ideas of conventionalism and subjectivism as Pojman partially disagrees with what these ideas are saying. Subjectivism is defined by “all moral principles are justified by virtue of their …show more content…
Subjectivism is an individualized idea and all principles are right or wrong based on someone’s own ideas therefore there is no room for judgement. Similar to that is conventionalism, which is based on cultural principles as everything must be judged based on that cultures ideas. As stated earlier, they overlap as they both lead to the lack of morality, leaving ethical relativism incoherent. I would completely agree with Pojman as he talks about why ethical relativism cannot fully be supported by either subjectivism or conventionalism. I also agree with Pojman because there are universal values that may not be written down, but have the same meaning worldwide such as killing other people, telling the truth, and stealing. These universal principles go against ethical relativism to make it