Comparing Kant And Abortion

Maybe there are some things that are so important that they shouldn’t be up for sale. Throughout the United States many controversial topics like abortion, suicide, having premarital sex and having children out of wedlock are all giving in to the pleasure and pain. When we can be sovereign to reason and reason governs us then we are completely free. Kant’s theory stresses the importance of life; Kant believes humans are so different due to the fact that, our brains are so developed that we can rationalizes things that are making us free. Freedom is not just the lack of obstacles to do what we want, in which this is the mentality practiced amongst libertarians, rather true freedom is the ability to act autonomously. Acting autonomously means to act …show more content…
Many people will argue that they acted out of desperation, but according to Kant, desperation is subjective being a desperation situation to someone could easily be nothing to someone else. Let’s apply the universal maxim to these topics. What if everybody did it? The world would be full of crime, death, and hatred all because people were so “desperate” to give into the instruments of pleasure and pain. Kant would argue that abortion is morally incorrect because one isn’t applying the categorical imperative to their life. The consequences of giving in to the pleasure of having unprotected sex would is pregnancy and Kant believes that despite all let the consequences be as they will. Another controversial topic would be suicide, despite all the problem one may be facing they have the mind capacity to rationalize all other outcomes because committing suicide would be acting heteronomous. Humans are so different because our minds have the capacity of no other which should make one want to be free. For example, a dog doesn’t have the reasoning to not chase its tail, or not pee on the floor, or to not bark at cars because they don’t have the capacity to rationalize how to act