Not really. It's just goofy old Kant. Not the goofiest thing he wrote -- that would be his three principles of morality, or his rampant misogyny -- but still, p

Not really. It's just goofy old Kant. Not the goofiest thing he wrote -- that would be his three principles of morality, or his rampant misogyny -- but still, pretty silly. If a human life is an end in itself, then euthanasia is the worst crime. Killing in self-defense, something to be condemned. Contraception becomes immoral. Sex for pleasure, and homosexuality, sinful. Bear in mind that those are not moral dictates I just pulled out of my ass, for maximum effect. That's what Kant believed in. Well, to be fair, the Chinaman (I prefer the term Confucianist) of Königsberg also believed in the death penalty. So much for human life as the end of morality.