/lit/ - Literature

>>15134841
Create maxim: 'I will kill, when this saves others.'

Is it able to be universalised without a contradiction in conception? Yes, it is possible to imagine a world in which this maxim is universal law.
Is this world able to be willed? Yes.
Does this involve using people as a means to an end? Yes, you are using the people whom you kill to save the lives of others.


Therefore, you have a perfect duty NOT to follow this maxim.

>>15134903
based

>>15134841
He would write a 1000 convoluted page tome that can easily be explained in 50 pages or less

>>15134956
Source: Never having read Kant. MoM is full of discussions like this and the sections span a few pages, not more.

>>15134974
Sorry bro, but I'm finishing the Critiques amd stand by my words

>>15134903
So it is moral to harvest organs from otherwise healthy people and kill them if the organs save more lives than you kill? Nice try utilitarian scum.

>>15135023
words really have no meaning to you

>>15135023
Did you miss the capital N, O, and T?

>>15134974
>MoM is full of discussions
It also has discussions about his grandma brushing his face with a bundle of pubic hair.

>>15134841
Personally I would do nothing, as others have a personal responsibility to stay away from train tracks.

>>15134841
Kill the five and then the one, because either way there are eyewitnesses to the fact you let people die

>>15134841

modern deontolists think pulling the lever would be the ethical action to do

>>15135023
the absolute state of this board

>>15135023
>Therefore, you have a perfect duty NOT to follow this maxim.
jfc

>>15135023
inb4 you try to pass it off as "trolling"