Come up with your own example to illustrate conflicting duties as a criticism against Kant's categorical imperative test. Can you see how this problem might also be illustrated by Holme's dilemma in Abandon Ship! when he sees the storm coming? Explain.

What will be an ideal response?


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What will be an ideal response?

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