Does cultural relativism force anthropologists to accept harmful practices like female genital mutilation as simply 'different' rather than wrong? I've been reading ethnographies where researchers struggle to balance respecting local traditions with universal human rights standards, and it feels like an impossible line to walk. My own fieldwork in a community practicing child marriage made me realize how easy it is to judge from a distance, yet how hard it is to intervene when you're embedded in the culture. Can we truly remain objective observers, or does the very act of studying 'the other' impose our own moral framework?