The people involved in the so-called 'Panama Papers' and the number of people and companies that have resorted to forming offshore companies using the informal services of the law firm Mossack Fonseca and Co. based in Panama City, are quite rightly demonized. World and offices in Quito and Guayaquil. Those who have used their professional advice to form businesses, especially in tax havens, are already appearing and defend their decision on the premise that it is not illegal, but they forget to complete their argument indicating whether or not they comply with ethical principles or They were simply designed to outwit the law and especially the Treasury. We must be careful not to fall into the idea that all our preferences are based on some absolutely rational standard. It is not like this; Many of our practices are merely peculiar to our society, which leads us towards cultural relativism.

It is necessary to learn to keep an open mind and thus be willing to discover the truth. If we emphasize that our moral vision reflects the prejudices of our society, we are simply supporting the theory that our feelings are not necessarily perceptions of the truth but, rather, the result of a cultural conditioning.

When we take the meaning of cultural relativism seriously, there is no possibility of admitting that the customs of other social groups are morally superior to ours, in order to justify any kind of practice that has clear immorality, but that they practice it openly in other countries and cultures that we consider 'advanced'. Our decision about what is right or wrong cannot be based solely on the standards of other social centers. If we call that moral progress, I would doubt it, because we would eliminate the principles by which we judge the appropriateness to be better and progress. It might seem attractive and very cosmopolitan to maintain a pluralistic and tolerant position, but it must be recognized that this leads us to ethical relativism and would lead us to conclude that ethical values are only products of personal interaction and a consequence of cultural relativism.

Unfortunately, this has led us to accept positions that are mutually exclusive and, therefore, cannot all be correct. And what is worse, to accept that there are no 'objective truths' that really look like truths. In that conventional relativism there is no moral sanction and everything is tolerated and quickly collapses into mere subjectivism. Each one sets his own moral standard. How dangerous is this concept that nothing is objectively right or wrong and that the definition of goodness or evil depends on the prevailing vision in a particular individual, culture or historical period.

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