The Unbridgeable Gap: Why Facts Don't Come with Built-In Instructions
I was reading a debate about animal rights the other day when I noticed something strange. The argument went like this: factory farming causes tremendous suffering to animals. Animals are sentient beings capable of pain. Therefore, we shouldn’t eat factory-farmed meat. It sounds reasonable enough. But there’s a peculiar little jump happening in that final step — one that a grumpy Scottish philosopher named David Hume spotted nearly 300 years ago....