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The most common forms of ethical subjectivism are also forms of moral relativism, with moral standards held to be relative to each culture or society ( c. f.

cultural relativism ), or even to every individual.

The latter view, as put forward by Protagoras, holds that there are as many distinct scales of good and evil as there are subjects in the world.

However there are also universalist forms of subjectivism such as ideal observer theory ( which claims that moral propositions are about what attitudes a hypothetical ideal observer would hold ) and divine command theory ( which claims that moral propositions are about what attitudes God holds ).