Please give your opinion on the following statements, as worded:
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One can logically derive “ought” from “is” - YES/NO
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You might, as a purely personal choice, kill an innocent person if you knew for sure that it would save 100 innocent people (in others words, do you believe in that case that the ends would justify the means?) - YES/NO
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The words “should” and “ought” imply certain (usually unstated) purposes, i.e., “should do X in order to Y” (where “purpose” is defined in the very broadest sense of anything desirable to the speaker - physically, psychically, religiously, emotionally, mystically, or toward satisfying one’s sense of justice or empathy, etc.) - YES/NO
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Regardless of the truth of the preceding statement, anyone who agrees with that statement would logically also have to agree that rights imply certain purposes for those rights, because rights imply a “should” (i.e., “one should have a right to X, so that Y set of purposes will be fulfilled”) - YES/NO