; if you are not, then the act is morally impermissible. Kant
believed that the welfare of each individual should properly be regarded as an
end in itself, as stated in the Formula of the End in Itself:Act in such a way that
you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any
other, never simply as a means but always at the same time as an end.Kant
believes that moral rules are exceptionless. Therefore, it is wrong to kill in all
situations, even those of self-defense. This is belief comes from the Universal
Law theory. Since we would never want murder to become a universal law,
then it must be not moral in all situations.So which of the two theories would
make a better societal order? That is a difficult question because both theories
have "problems." For Kant it is described above, his rules are absolute. Killing
could never be make universal, therefore it is wrong in each and every
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