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You Can't Derive an Aught From an Iz
David hume famously posited that you cannot derive an aught from an iz. He meant by that was that merely knowing the objective facts about something does not tell you how to implement those facts in your life. And so it might just be a necessary consequence of the scientific method that it doesn't have a morality implicit in ita. But i don't believe that, because i don't think that you cold make rational judgments about value. It's far too complicated. I mean, marxism was supposed to be a scientific utopia predicated on scientific principles and all that. You know, it just didn't work....