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A moral judgment is "it is wrong to do X". It isn't a moral judgement to say "We don't want to spend our society's money subsidizing drug and alcohol addiction, we want to spend it on getting homeless people jobs, houses, etc." It isn't a moral judgment to say "we have observed that drug and alcohol addiction are harmful to the addicts and to the society we want to create, so we don't want to spend our money on that." Usually people aren't quite so precise and assume that the "we have observed ... to be harmful" is understood.



"We don't want to spend our society's money subsidizing drug and alcohol addiction, we want to spend it on getting homeless people jobs, houses, etc."

That is a moral judgement. It may be one you agree with, but it's wrong to say that's not a moral judgement.




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