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I owe you a philosophical quotation on another thread, but I'll post one here, since it is appropriate to this discussion. The quotation applies to virtue ethics generally, but is especially applicable to Gorean thought, which seems to assume that because many women prefer to submit, all women should submit.

"In every system of morality which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when all of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, "is," and "is not," I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an "ought," or an "ought not." This change is imperceptible; but is however, of the last consequence. For as this "ought," or "ought not," that expresses some new relation or affirmation, it is necessary that it should be observed and explained; and at the same time that a reason should be given; for what seems altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it."

David Hume