ABSTRACT
Ethical systems are not separable from cultures of which they are a part. That means that ethical values and norms are always in a relation of interdependence with broader systems of values and norms that characterise (and define) a particular cultural system. Since cultures are historical phenomena, so are ethical systems. Moreover, at every moment of the history of mankind, several different cultures existed simultaneously. Thus, actions and events can be judged from a rather large number of different cultural standpoints. These premises accepted, several arguments in connection with Douglas P. Lackey's ethical analysis can be formulated, leading to somewhat different conclusions. Their central idea is that the author analyses the Holocaust from a standpoint of moral values reduced to the categories of murder and torture.
