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We can apply Kant's categorical imperative to lots of stuff. Some people don't want to have children. If everyone chose to not have children the human race woul
by samlevine 9y ago
We can apply Kant's categorical imperative to lots of stuff. Some people don't want to have children. If everyone chose to not have children the human race would face extinction.
This does not imply that we must (or more importantly, can from a moral perspective) force people who do not want children to have them anymore that it implies that forcing people who do not want flu shots is the right thing to do.
- danharaj 9y agoIn one case we are talking about the wellbeing of other actual human beings, in the second, the abstract concept of the human race. Seems like a bait and switch to me.