Ethics-Catergorical imperative commands
...e right ones to do. In Japan, it is customary to take off one's shoes when eating and in India the cow is sacred. Rules are developed differently as wide of a range as through a country or perhaps a county or even as small as a town. So how do you differentiate everyone's actions to dissect and arrive to the final answer of what is right. In addition, this rule does not seem to focus on what is right at all but what is socially accepted. In world war two, it was accepted to ridicule Jews everyone around you did it but did it make it right. It follows the rule to do what you think everyone around would do. So there are flaws within the rule that if one would follow it could lead to disaster depending on who exactly you are modeling after. One thing human's do from birth is follow or model after others. Whether it is your favorite cartoon character when you were little to imitating the genuine class of your favorite musician. It is whom we follow that makes us who we are we piece by piece as time develops so does or decision-making process. To one day, create the image of who you truly are. This also contradicts free will the fact that we need to make choices on our own beliefs not ones followed. Free will is something taken for granted or ancestors behind us fought battles over a thing as simple as free will. To be able to act on your own regard with you and your loved ones on mind instead of a king's opinion that does not even know of your existence. So there, stating a theory that does not express free will one main reason I am against this idea because without freedom there is no appreciation for the small things that matter. You simply live life as a mindless drone incapable to make the simple decision of what to eat for dinner. Furthermore, there is no way to reveal what is moral and what is not under this theory. According to the text to decipher what is moral if it would be willed into universal law it's moral if not unmoral. In addition, what is moral if the duty to be acted on if and only if the opposite cannot be universal? With that statement, there is no way to figure out what is right and wrong using that rule. Like before stated eve...