On 9 August 2010 21:34, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not at all. The leap from "is" to
"ought", however, is fallacious and
an important and damaging error. [1] It's the "something must be done,
this is something, therefore this is a good idea" fallacy.
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
... except that the "something must be done" is also questionable.
- d.