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A contradiction in conception happens when, if a maxim were to be universalized, it ceases to make sense because the "...maxim would necessarily destroy itself as soon as it was made a universal law".

The action under the maxim is going to be permitted if it can be universalized, and it's going to be prohibited if it can't.

In taking this stance they assumed that the more grandiose justifications sometimes offered by philosophers, such as the neo-Aristotelian argument that benefiting others is necessary for your own flourishing, or the Kantian argument that maxims contrary to it cannot be universalized, can never succeed.

But in his later works, Kant explicitly identifies true virtue with a rationally grounded commitment to morality, not with an initially pathological feeling of affection which has been universalized and cooled.

Because the "other" is an abstract other and the requirements are universalized (I must act in such a way in all cases) duties toward others have tended toward moral minimums of obligation.

Be to kind to others.

For example, if the maxim 'It is permissible to break promises' was universalized, no one would trust any promises made, so the idea of a promise would become meaningless; the maxim would be self-contradictory because, when universalized, promises cease to be meaningful.

To be cool is to be invisible.

To be reasonable is to be right.

To be alive is to face risks.

To be retweeted is to gain them.