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The Categorical Imperative seems pretty much useless for making life decisions. “Hmm I like growing plants, maybe I should be a farmer? Ah but what if everyone was a farmer, there’d be nobody to make video games, best not then. I am very intelligent.”

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that doesn’t sound right, but i don’t know enough about kantian ethics to dispute it

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The categorical imperative relates to how people should act in specific situations, not to choosing career paths.

It’s got problems as a universal guiding principal, but the guy in the OP fundamentally misunderstood it despite being obsessed with Kant for seven years lmao

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lol that explains why I have no solid understanding of the concept

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