If subjectivism was the base of their moral reasoning, I believe Mark Walberg’s character would have killed the goat herders. The subjective view is that anything is moral as long as you feel that it is a moral thing to do. A Navy Seal is trained for the hard missions that most are not able to complete. They are trained to get in and get out and to do whatever is necessary to complete that mission. This includes taking lives to …show more content…
This belief is based on what the culture dictates to be moral reasoning. The culture of the military, when at war, is to defeat the enemy and to come home alive. Therefore, I believe that Mark Walberg’s character would have killed the goat herders under this moral reasoning as well. Since one culture is unable to judge another culture for what they find to be morally acceptable, then they would not be judged by anyone if they decided to kill them. After finding the satellite phone on the goat herders, there was no mistaking that the Taliban would find out that they were there. This not only compromises their mission of defeating the enemy, but also puts all their lives at risk if contact could not be made for extraction. Moreover, if looked at from the culture of Afghanistan, the area that they were in, killing a person for having a different agenda is acceptable. Under either culture’s moral reasoning, killing them would be