Some of you might remember the news a few months back about a young American missionary killed by an isolated tribe living on the North Sentinel Island.
If not, the story is here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...entinel-island
The case, tragic as it may be, is interesting in the context of many debates on morals we have held on this forum where people have touted objective morals, relative morals, subjective morals, nihilism, emergent morals and whatnot as the basis for moral values and systems.
What I am asking is that if the killing of this missionary is a sin, if it is immoral, if it is justified, if a moral judgment is irrelevant and if you have an answer or opinion to that end, what is your reasoning? I'm asking what
you think. Feel free to reason around it from the perspective of the tribe, but that is ultimately not what I am interested in.
Note: I sincerely hope people treat this subject respectful in tone. It involves the death of a young man and no matter what we might or might not think of what lead up to that point, it is still a tragedy. What I'm interested in is the discussion of various ways to see moral systems and how they could / should affect the judgment of what happened. I see little reason to go into personal opinions or judgments of his plan or character. For what it is worth, he did take solid precautions not to be a disease carrier.