(July 30, 2019 at 9:41 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Your ought isn’t implied by the statement “stealing is wrong”. It’s bound up in an unspoken evaluative premise, and that....is the is ought dilemma.
That a person cannot derive an ought from an is without at least one evaluative premise.
It is implied pretty much when everyone other than you and some handful of atheists perhaps, say stealing is morally wrong, lol.
When I tell my children something is morally wrong, I am in fact telling them these are things they ought not do, it’s a part of the meaning of saying it’s morally wrong.
Now I’m giving you room to define your distinct concept of morally wrong here.
If when you say stealing is morally wrong, doesn’t imply that I ought not steal what is it implying?
Is it merely implying something like, it causes harm to others?
If so what does calling it morally wrong imply that saying it causes harm to others doesn’t?
