| Premise 1: | General Moral Principle (GMP)
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| Premise 2: | Factual claim (FC)
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| Conclusion: | Derivative Moral Judgment (DMJ)
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| Examples:
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| Premise 1: | Killing people is wrong. (GMP)
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| Premise 2: | Capital punishment is killing of criminals.
(FC)
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| Premise 3: | Criminals are people. (FC)
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| Conclusion: | Capital punishment is wrong. (DMJ)
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| Premise 1: | Harming people is wrong. (GMP)
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| Premise 2: | Killing people is harming them. (FC)
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| Conclusion: | Killing people is wrong. (DMJ)
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| Premise 1: | One should not lie. (GMP)
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| Premise 2: | On a tax return one signs a statement
indicating
that the information one has provided is correct.
(FC)
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| Premise 3: | If one signs a statement indicating
that the
information one has provided on a tax return is
true when one knows that one has provided false
information, then one has lied. (FC)
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| Conclusion: | One should not knowingly provide false
information on a tax return. (DMJ)
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| Premise 1: | It is wrong to attempt to sway the
judicial system
in one's own favor (GMP)
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| Premise 2: | Offering a judge a bribe is an attempt
to sway the
judicial system in one's own favor (FC)
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| Conclusion: | Offering a judge a bribe is wrong.
(DMJ)
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