'Is & Ought' in David Hume

[Mudhammam]

But then, would you overturn your own conscience based on the polling?

I sure hope my conscience would be overturned if polling indicated that the well-being of any individual was diminished because of direct and unnecessary action or inaction that was related to myself. If not, I suppose I'd have to acknowledge that I fall far short of the ideal I espouse, and in fact, I can say that's most definitely the case. I'm *not* speaking of polling in terms of might decides right, but only that the majority of beings in a given "internal state" allot us sufficient data to determine if the antecedents/consequences are to be recommended as morally correct or rejected as to the contrary.