Return to Duty

Victoria, in your analysis for case two, you restate in essence Kant's argument against a "double standard" in ethics.  If we do not like to get hurt, we should not accept others getting hurt.  Therefore, if somebody is being injured, e.g. rape, we need to respond, or we are attempting to live by a "double standard."  In effect, Kant calls us to do our duty.  Now, duty, there is a word we never hear much any longer.  It is always rights to this, rights to that.  Yes, ethics, as Kant presents them, calls us to duty, to ourselves and others equally in terms of what is common to all humans: not to see pain or death.  Maybe we will recover Kant one of these days.  Dr. Rux