Moral Subjectivist Research Paper

After reading the basic moral concepts and doing further research I would consider myself a Moral Subjectivist. A Moral Subjectivist holds that "rights" and "wrongs" vary among humans and cultures based on individual feelings and social and other circumstances. I believe that humans all over the world have different experiences and cultivation. Not everyone is comparable and every human has a distinct way of viewing and perceiving whether I or others think is right or wrong. For example, a young African boy and his family were disciplined with "good" morals such as respecting neighbors, each other, and helping the community thrive. Suddenly a war lord comes and begins to terrorize the small community and murders the young boys' father and brother at point blank range. He runs off and meets a tribe who is fighting the war lord and murdering his comrades in order to win back their territory and freedom. The young boy who never thought of or was put in a position to kill is now a gunman. Yes, murdering is wrong in particular circumstances, however, for this boy in order for his tribe,culture, and he himself to survive they had a right to fight back. Another example would be the holocaust, the Nazi's thought that killing Jewish people was the "right" thing to do. A Moral Subjectivist in that era, perhaps …show more content…
If you take the holocaust example and the Abraham Lincoln example, you would realize that circumstances change and humans have different thoughts, feelings, and opinions regardless of the time period and location. Although we might not relate or see eye to eye with others "rights" and wrongs" they exist and are deeply real to them regardless of our own moral judgements. What I consider to be "right" or "wrong" might not be what the person next to me considers to be "right" or