Moral Relativism is an issue that occurs when someone thinks it is okay to base their standards on the current situation. For example, if someone has the standard of going to church every Sunday, but rationalizes that it's okay to miss--just once--for great-great-grandma's 103 birthday, then this person is experiencing Moral Relativism. Their morals are relative to the situation.
Prophets have taught that this is not a way to live. We cannot rationalize keeping the commandments in certain situations and breaking them in others. It just doesn't work like that. Learning about Moral Relativism has been important to me. I want to make sure it is something I avoid. I want to be a Moral Absolutist.
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