syag
“if you are UNABLE to provide intervention to someone because medical ethics dictate that you use your time or materials on someone else instead, you should never think that it is YOU who is deciding their fate.”
I don’t
“If I have one rope and two people are drowning I can only save one,”
that is precisely my point. But how do you choose? Halacha has one approach (though as mentioned it is far from clear as to what that is and perhaps not surprisingly a machlokes, how to decide.
How would you choose? whoever is closer? whover fell in first? Male? Definitely going to survive? whoever owns the rope? whoever will live longer? whoever will do more mitzvos? The bigger talmud chacham Whoever will allow you to save more drowning people in the future? Some other criteria
Many if not all of the above can be found in halachic literature
modern ethics would fit with some shitos, making it even harder to call evil.
But even if it didn’t doesnt make it inherintly evil.
“I should be wishing I could save both, but understanding that I must pick one, and believing that it was Hashem’s will and He will deal as needed.”
agreed, not sure why you thought I felt otherwise.