An idea from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Picture a community where each person both makes the laws and obeys them, and treats every other person as an end. It is only an ideal. You act well when you act as a law-making member of it.

From Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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