At the entrance to the park sits a beautiful flower bed, with a plethora of exotic and unfamiliar flowers. As you walk in you are instantly urged to just pick a flower, because there are thousands of them and picking only one flower will not make a difference. They are beautiful, and if you live under the maxim that allows you to do what you want, you pick a flower and move on. Categorical imperative shows that there are contradictions and irrationalities to your decision, and you would have to stop to consider those (Mitchell, 2014). If every person entering the park decided to pick a flower then the flower bed would be quickly depleted, and this is a direct contradiction to the original reason for wanting a flower. You saw something so beautiful and wanted a piece of it, but enabling everyone to do it would mean that it would not exist as is for very long. Unfortunately, people pick the flowers, and by the end of the day when you leave it the flower bed is an abomination of its former
At the entrance to the park sits a beautiful flower bed, with a plethora of exotic and unfamiliar flowers. As you walk in you are instantly urged to just pick a flower, because there are thousands of them and picking only one flower will not make a difference. They are beautiful, and if you live under the maxim that allows you to do what you want, you pick a flower and move on. Categorical imperative shows that there are contradictions and irrationalities to your decision, and you would have to stop to consider those (Mitchell, 2014). If every person entering the park decided to pick a flower then the flower bed would be quickly depleted, and this is a direct contradiction to the original reason for wanting a flower. You saw something so beautiful and wanted a piece of it, but enabling everyone to do it would mean that it would not exist as is for very long. Unfortunately, people pick the flowers, and by the end of the day when you leave it the flower bed is an abomination of its former