Thursday 1 April 2010

Why make an exception for the Government?

Why make an exception for the Government?

If we would not tolerate a specific action perpetrated by a typical person, such as forced payment, then why allow it when it is popular, or committed by the Government? Kant's Categorical Imperative requires that we "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." and yet we do not make this requirement of the Government.

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