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What determines whether or not you "should" do something?
My thoughts are that "should requires an axiom". You could say "you shouldn't kill people... if you don't want people to suffer". Or "you should kill people... if you want to go to jail".
In practice, I think people have similar ideas about how outcomes make them feel. Outcome X feels just. Outcome Y feels unjust etc.
When people use the word "should", I think they're implicitly saying "should... in order to achieve the outcomes that me/society feel are just".
That is precisely the question we are trying to answer.