• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        7 months ago

        Iirc, Hume’s guillotine states essentially that a statement of what should be cannot be derived from any system of statements only about what is. That is to say, morality cannot be derived only from reality. Basically, you need to have a set of axioms (which in this context are called “ethical systems”) in order to reduce questions of morality to questions of fact.

        Apologies for any errors I am only half-awake.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 months ago

        When translating this to the animal realm it’s pretty clear what part of the male to cut in half, but what part of the female specimen would we cut?