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Hume's law says that

    { 1 } - we ought to treat others as we want to be treated.
    { 2 } - a desire or action can violate reason only by being based on a factual error or by picking means insufficient to our ends.
    { 3 } - we can't deduce an "ought" from an "is."
    { 4 } - "ought" implies "can."

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Hume's law says that

This is the golden rule.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

Hume's law says that

    { 1 } - we ought to treat others as we want to be treated.
    { 2 } - a desire or action can violate reason only by being based on a factual error or by picking means insufficient to our ends.
    { 3 } - we can't deduce an "ought" from an "is."
    { 4 } - "ought" implies "can."

This gives early Hume's rationality requirements.

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3 is correct!

Hume's law says that

    { 1 } - we ought to treat others as we want to be treated.
    { 2 } - a desire or action can violate reason only by being based on a factual error or by picking means insufficient to our ends.
    { 3 } - we can't deduce an "ought" from an "is."
    { 4 } - "ought" implies "can."

In other words, moral conclusions can't be deduced from descriptive premises alone. We need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.

So we can't give facts about society (or evolution, or God, or desires, or whatever) -- and then from these alone logically deduce a moral conclusion. We could always consistently accept the facts and yet reject the moral conclusion. It follows that neither science nor religion can establish the basic principles of morality.

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4 is wrong. Please try again.

Hume's law says that

    { 1 } - we ought to treat others as we want to be treated.
    { 2 } - a desire or action can violate reason only by being based on a factual error or by picking means insufficient to our ends.
    { 3 } - we can't deduce an "ought" from an "is."
    { 4 } - "ought" implies "can."

This is Kant's law.

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