Moral Oughts

[John 6IX Breezy]

Ofc John should be hit means that you should hit John....

.....unless we add a specific caveat. That just because someone should be hit, that doesn’t license you as the hitter.

Hmm that seems backwards to me for some reason. Going from specific to broad its clear that if I should hit him then he should be hit. But it seems to me that something needs to be added if we're going from broad to specific; from saying he should be hit to I should be hitting him.

I don't understand why a caveat is needed. For example. It should be clear that just because I live in New York, doesn't mean I live in Brooklyn, in much the same way that if he should be hit doesn't mean I should be hitting him.