After MacIntyre: On Deriving ‘Ought’ from ‘Is’

Are there any (non-trivial) valid arguments that satisfy the following conditions: (i) The premises are all purely factual in the sense of purporting to state only what is the case; (ii) the conclusion is normative/evaluative? Alasdair MacIntyre gives an example (After Virtue, U. of Notre Dame Press, 1981, p. 55) that is plausible but not rationally coercive.

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