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This is what I mean when I say Kant (and other enlightenment era thinkers) obsession with some universal moral rules followed by purely rational humans is some dude’s fantasy who never has understood how normal people work.
I was about to defend him but after refreshing my memory and reading about the Categorical Imperative I think you’re absolutely right.
What's that? I liked the ideas in the first half of "a critique of pure reason"
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
It's basic and kinda neat as a personal moral philosophy.