AmbiguousGuy
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Actually, I'm Norwegian.
Oops! I'm afraid that makes my decision much easier. Watch overhead for Klingon craft.
Two people are alone in the woods completely isolated. One has been in an accident and is horribly injured and in horrible pain and begs to be shot. There are no other alternatives. Shoot or let him suffer. Are you going to tell us that the correct moral decision depends on whether the other guy subjectively feels like shooting him or not?
You may have me confused with someone else. I have no belief in that thing which you label as 'the correct moral choice/decision.'
That's because I don't believe in God, and one can only believe in objective morality if one believes in God. I mean, where can objective morality exist except within God's Great Noggin? Sure there's a chance that Artie actually is the smartest human being on our planet and also a super Jeopardy champion, but there would still be no reason for me to see Artie's moral opinion as anything other than Artie's moral opinion. What would induce me to see it as actual Objective Morality? I don't believe in prophets.
For me, moral decisions are always fallible things. That's because humans make them -- always based on inadequate intelligence, upset emotions, personal bias, lack of complete informations, etc....
You don't think the correct moral decision would be to shoot no matter what the shooter might subjectively feel like? "Sorry, I can't shoot you no matter how much agony you are in it's not moral for me to shoot you because that is my subjective feeling that it's better to let you slowly die in agony for who knows how long."
Yes, you're confusing me with someone else. I would shoot the guy long before most of my compatriots... for I am a sensitive soul with a finely-tuned moral sense.
Now let me ask you about the same scenario. Let's say that this thing is happening 300 years ago in colonial America. Everyone is a Christian. I have been taught from childhood that if a person commits suicide, he will go to a special hell. And I live in a brutal world where people suffer all the time. Heck, I've been shot twice myself and have begged to be dispatched, but they wouldn't shoot me and I recovered, thank God.
So do I shoot the guy and send him straight to an awful Hell?
Nah... he'll be fine.
Of course morality depends on the subjective state of the shooter.