Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.special From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: THE BIN BUSTERS Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 07:02:32 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: THE BIN BUSTERS Publication Date: Sunday November 8, 1992 BYLINE: As most people do, Morrison misapplied Kant's categorical imperative. We are obliged, according to Kant, to act only as we wish all people would act in a given situation; he says nothing about coercing all others to act as we would act in the same circumstances. Keep your trash bins in your yard until you hear the trucks coming, or throw your body over your discarded diet-cola cans to protect them from marauders; Kant would approve of either action. But don't appeal to him to justify self-righteous snitchery. J.L. JONSSON Long Beach This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM