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