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  • Logic is the wrong tool for ethics. In formal logic, you can only assign values like true or false to something called “descriptive statements”. These are statements of fact, that can be observed.

    Morality deals with “prescriptive” statements. Unobservable and unstable statements about how the world ought to be.

    Logic breaks down because it’s impossible to argue for something that should be using only facts about how thing are.

    The prescriptive statement “it’s wrong to harm” relies on the prescriptive statement “harm is bad”. Their is no bottom to it.