Is morality a social construct?

There are many that believe it is morally right to send teenagers(children) to prison for life.
There are many that believe it is morally right to kill adulterers.
There are many that believe it is morally right to circumcise women and men.
There are many that believe it is morally right to torture.
There are many that believe it is morally right to hang a criminal.
There are many that believe it is morally right to go to war.
There are many that believe it is morally right to abort a fetus.
There are many that believe it is morally right to kill an intruder.
There are many that believe it is morally right to collect data on all citizens.
There are many that believe it is morally right to engage in extraordinary rendition.
Hitler believed it was morally right to exterminate the Jews.
Stalin believed it was morally right to assassinate his enemies.

There are many that believe it is morally right to____________________________.
fill in the blank.

If we don't agree on what is morally right then there must not be any universal moral standards.

The Anthropological Argument for moral standards is as follows:
1. People in different societies make different moral judgments regarding the same action.
2. If people in different societies make different moral judgments regarding the same action, they must accept different moral standards.
3. If people in different societies accept different moral standards, there are no universal moral standards.
4. Therefore, there are no universal moral standards.

Think about points 3 and 2 are they accurate? What is the difference between moral judgement and moral standards and do moral judgements depend upon moral standards?

To understand the difference one must consider facts and belief and ones view about the nature of reality.

According to Emmanuel Kant our experiences are mediated through the human mind which universally structures perceptions in accordance with our relative time and space. Others have argued that our experiences are mediated by our culture....realizing that "our culture is the center of the universe," and "our culture" can be vastly different for peoples living in the same country.

Theodore Schick Jr. says: One's cultural focus may take obvious forms, in which one consciously believes that one's people's arts are the most beautiful, values the most virtuous, and beliefs the most truthful.
This is known as ethnocentrism...all culture's have it and it can be a problem when trying to understand ourselves and others.

Marcus and Fisher claim that in using portraits of other cultural patterns to reflect self-critically on our own ways, anthropology disrupts common sense and makes us reexamine our taken-for-granted assumptions.

Theodore Schick Jr. says

"It is widely believed that there are self-evident truths in logic, such as the statement that everything is identical with itself. But are there any self-evident truths in morality? Consider the statement, "Unnecessary suffering is wrong." This statement does not say that suffering is wrong or that no one has suffered unnecessarily. What it says is that whenever one is made to suffer unnecessarily, a wrong has been committed. To anyone who understands what suffering and wrong are, this statement should be self-evident.

If you do not believe that this statement is true, the burden of proof is on you to provide a counterexample. If you are unable to do so - if you cannot cite a situation in which unnecessary suffering is right - then any claim that it is false is irrational, for you have no good reason to make it."

Developing a framework for looking at domestic and international human rights issues through a lens not colored rosy might awaken us and help us create new methods for dealing with moral disagreements. It might provide common ground and encourage all to look at these disagreements from new perspectives.

First on the list may be understanding that we don't all agree on what is "morally right."