(August 3, 2019 at 11:36 am)Acrobat Wrote:(August 3, 2019 at 9:53 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: 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 am of that view, but Gae and Grandizer don’t see the ought as following from the moral facts. For them a moral fact, like stealing is bad, is just another way of saying stealing is harmful.
They don’t view moral statements like stealing as bad as normative, but descriptive. Stealing is bad may be objectively true, but you ought not steal or so bad things is not, at least according to them.
Is stealing a loaf of bread to feed my starving children a moral act, or immoral?
