What is the problem with the inference from the fact that the F-150 is less fuel efficient to the moral judgment that the engineers who design the F-150 have a moral obligation to make it more fuel efficient?
A) This is a culturally relative judgment.
B) There is no bridge premise.
C) We don't know the social facts necessary to construct the relevant moral values.
D) It is classist.

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The problem lies in the lack of a bridge premise that connects the factual observation about fuel efficiency to the moral obligation. Without establishing a principle that links facts about fuel efficiency to moral duties, the inference is incomplete.

What Is the Problem with the Inference from the Fact