Magic Poriferan
^He pronks, too!
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I wouldn't call myself a subjectivist, I think objective truth can be grasped, but people don't realize that it's faith along with rationality that enables them to grasp objective truth.
Faith is an expedient that is unfortunately sometimes necessary. But I prefer minimizing it and maximizing inferable knowledge where feasible.
I think when someone attempts to grasp the truth from faith, the basically just function as a subjectivist, because faith is removed from virtually any objective evidence.
I don't see what your example has to do with anything, but I'll answer anyway. It sounds as if his delusion only affected why he was doing something and not what he was doing. He's still guilty of murder because he intended to kill someone. If he had thought the gun was a magic squirt gun that shot rainbows that made people fall in love then he might not have had the requisite intent to commit murder.
If I were to consider this man's beliefs so clearly removed from the facts that I would just assert he is crazy and his ideas not worth giving serious consideration (if any), would that be intolerant of me?