Moral Oughts

[GrandizerII]

If stealing is wrong is a moral fact, then it necessarily follows that one ought not to steal I don't get what's hard about this. Morality is about what you should or shouldn't do, based on whether it's right/good or bad/wrong.

I fire burns you, you oughtn't stick your hand in it if you don't want to get burned.

I sort of agree with you. It's a reasonable conclusion, even if the ought does not 100 percent follow from the is.

Btw, I've been reading a bit about moral naturalism (because everyone is suggesting that's what I adhere to) and it does seem to make a lot more sense than some platonic notion of morality. Sure, at first glance it may seem like words are being redefined in a sneaky way, but when one asks oneself what is it about something that makes it good or bad, one will very often appeal to something observed in nature. Stealing bread from the poor is bad because it deprives the poor of that which they depend on to survive, for example.