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Right here we are asked, what is ethics? what are ethics? ethics.
00:08
Well, ethics is a set of moral principles, moral principles or values, right? moral principles or values that guide behavior, that guide behavior by informing by how should we say this by establishing that's the word i'm going to use by establishing what is right and what is wrong what is right and what is wrong what is wrong now here is a very famous quote i can't remember who said it, i think it might have been david hume, where he said, you cannot derive an ought from an is.
01:15
Right? so this is a problem with many people who believe that you can determine everything by science.
01:20
Science tells you the properties of things, but it doesn't tell you how to interact with that thing or what the proper behavior is for that thing.
01:29
For instance, you know, i can see, like, this is a big, you know, problem with weaponry, right? so you can determine the scientific characteristics of a blade, but it doesn't tell you, you know, the scientific analysis of the characteristics of that blade, what it is, doesn't tell you what you ought to do with that knife.
01:55
So that's a limitation...