#philsophein

I am pretty sure that if what I fantasized was real I am pretty sure I would be extremely miserable. I am if that would make me a masochist for fantasizing in something I don’t actually want, a banality since I’m pretty sure I can’t think of anything better to escape to, which means my days are only going to be this or worse, or a pessimist because I am sure it will badly. Any which way I am sure to suffer, it’s my lot in life.

I was thinking about Kant's examples describing the universality formulation of the categorical imperative, especially the person who makes a promise he doesn't intend to keep. The promise he uses is an agreement to repay a loan. I was thinking about our modern system of banking and whether it would be moral to not to not pay back the money while never having the intention to do so. When you go to a bank at no point do you agree to pay the loan, when you sign the contract you are agreeing to abide by the rules of said contract. In every one of those contracts there is a description of what would happen if non payment were to occur. Even if you do not pay the money you are still technically abiding the rules and whatever triggers may occur. This is universally applicable, (though I think the activity would fall under amoral behavior). So in the end you can agree to the contract while never explicitly stating your intentions on how you plan to use the contract. I wonder what Kant would think about that.

The only thing lacking about living inside your imagination is that you are utterly alone, that that you could tell besides in the most existential sense.