The Scottish philosopher David Hume famously deduced that you cannot derive an ought from an is.
I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around this. Can someone explain to this to me in simplified terms?
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Here is an example.
Let’s pretend society is dominated by right-handed people and left-handed people are slaves. That’s the reality, that’s how it *is*.
However, just because right-handed people dominate, it does not mean they should. Their current dominance does not prove some universal law or moral imperative. It does not prove that right-handed people are better or that their treatment of left-handed people is correct. The current reality does not prove that this is how it *ought* to be. It just is.
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