(October 24, 2013 at 5:59 pm)genkaus Wrote: Actually, not addressing that is a cop-out to begin with. Because its common in many religious moralities and now, apparently Kant's morality. To set up a moral standard with a bunch of things that "ought to be done", but "can't be done" is stacking the game in your favor. You are setting up an impossible standard for someone to live by and then penalizing them for not living up to it.
Agreed. However, I'm betting Christians who are Kantians won't see it as such, because it would seem compatible with the Biblical doctrine of the sinful state of humanity. Specifically, the common evangelical belief that the Laws in the Old Testament were in fact not possible for a mere human to follow their entire life, and that such is a signpost to Jesus, who did manage to do so. Clearly, that's malicious beyond imagining, but it is a belief I myself had when I was an evangelical, fundamentalist Christian.
