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Our GR ("We ought to treat others only as we consent to being treated in the same situation") is stronger than the GR of prescriptivism in that:
{ 1 } - we can violate it even if we don't use "ought."
{ 2 } - we can defend it using practically any approach to ethics.
{ 3 } - views that accept moral truths could accept that our GR is an important moral truth about how we ought to live.
{ 4 } - all of the above.
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1 is wrong. Please try again.
Our GR ("We ought to treat others only as we consent to being treated in the same situation") is stronger than the GR of prescriptivism in that:
{ 1 } - we can violate it even if we don't use "ought."
{ 2 } - we can defend it using practically any approach to ethics.
{ 3 } - views that accept moral truths could accept that our GR is an important moral truth about how we ought to live.
{ 4 } - all of the above.
Prescriptivism's GR is about the consistent use of "ought" -- and so we can escape prescriptivism's GR if we refuse to make moral judgments.
But the other points hold too.
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2 is wrong. Please try again.
Our GR ("We ought to treat others only as we consent to being treated in the same situation") is stronger than the GR of prescriptivism in that:
{ 1 } - we can violate it even if we don't use "ought."
{ 2 } - we can defend it using practically any approach to ethics.
{ 3 } - views that accept moral truths could accept that our GR is an important moral truth about how we ought to live.
{ 4 } - all of the above.
Prescriptivism's GR assumes a controversial prescriptivist analysis of moral terms.
But the other points hold too.
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3 is wrong. Please try again.
Our GR ("We ought to treat others only as we consent to being treated in the same situation") is stronger than the GR of prescriptivism in that:
{ 1 } - we can violate it even if we don't use "ought."
{ 2 } - we can defend it using practically any approach to ethics.
{ 3 } - views that accept moral truths could accept that our GR is an important moral truth about how we ought to live.
{ 4 } - all of the above.
Prescriptivism says that moral judgments aren't true or false -- and so it isn't a moral truth that we ought to follow the golden rule.
But the other points hold too.
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4 is correct!
Our GR ("We ought to treat others only as we consent to being treated in the same situation") is stronger than the GR of prescriptivism in that:
{ 1 } - we can violate it even if we don't use "ought."
{ 2 } - we can defend it using practically any approach to ethics.
{ 3 } - views that accept moral truths could accept that our GR is an important moral truth about how we ought to live.
{ 4 } - all of the above.
All of these hold.
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