It does claim something else would be morally better. It doesn’t claim that you are obliged to do it. Why use the word “ought” only for the second and not the first?
It doesn’t seem that way to me. It seems to me that “ought” covers a fairly broad range of levels of obligation, so to speak; in cases of outright obligation I would be more inclined to use “must” than “ought”.
Your theory does not claim I ought to do something different.
It does claim something else would be morally better. It doesn’t claim that you are obliged to do it. Why use the word “ought” only for the second and not the first?
Because that is what most English-speaking human beings mean by “ought”.
It doesn’t seem that way to me. It seems to me that “ought” covers a fairly broad range of levels of obligation, so to speak; in cases of outright obligation I would be more inclined to use “must” than “ought”.