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One of the standard usages is "doing this will most enhance your utility". As in "you should kill that motherf@#$%". This is distinct from 'right' and 'good' although 'ought' is used in the same way, albeit less frequently. It is advice, rather than exhortation.
Indeed. "The Pebblesorters should avoid making piles of 1,001 stones" makes perfect sense.
"Should" and "ought" actually have strong connotations of societal morality.
Should you rob the bank? Should you have sex with the minor? Should you confess to the crime?
Your personal utility is one thing - but "should" and "ought" often have more to do with what society thinks of your actions.
Probably not.
Probably not here.
Hell no. "The Fifth" is the only significant law-item that I'm explicitly familiar with. And I'm not even American.
More often what you want society to think of people's actions (either as a signal or as persuasion. I wonder which category my answers above fit into?).