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Comment author: AllanCrossman 22 November 2009 06:14:59PM *  4 points [-]

Of course, Kant distinguished between two different meanings of "should": the hypothetical and the categorical.

  1. If you want to be a better Go player, you should study the games of Honinbo Shusaku.
  2. You should pull the baby off the rail track.

This seems useful here...