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[–] Ryantific_theory 12 points 1 year ago

So basically: "Enjoying things is actually an existentially crushing existence."

The worst part is that this really isn't relevant to Kant's Categorical Imperative, even if the second imperative is "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end." Cutting out a few steps, we have an imperfect duty to cultivate ourselves and our talents, but there is no blame in failing to do so.

Unless they were aiming for a joke where they ruin a sunny little post by taking things way too seriously. I've seen others that landed, both funny in the contrast and existentially devastating in the content, but this one just isn't there.