Showing posts with label Immanuel Kant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immanuel Kant. Show all posts

Sunday, August 16, 2009

act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

It's generally considered bad manners to let bodily fluids leave the body in public. I assumed this was a universal. Not in Southeast Asia, apparently.

This morning on our way to church Alyssa saw a man stop by a tree, put a finger on one nostril, and blow snot onto the tree with the other nostril.

I know, right?! Gross.

I've also read about people peeing on the sidewalks in Vietnam. Businesspeople, too, in suits. I'll report on this after our October trip.

I don't know about you, but I think the no-releasing-bodily-fluids-in-public rule stands up to the categorical imperative.