• wopazoo [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    My mom started an OnlyFans account. I’ve no idea why. It’s not like we need the money. Dad was in the tech sector and made lots of investments before he passed so we’re very financially stable.

    She posted about it for all the family and friends to see. I confronted her and based my arguments against her actions in Kant’s Categorical Imperative. After half an hour she still wasn’t understanding the concept and was just in tears that I wasn’t being supportive.

    I told her alright look, imagine things in terms of universal actions. So you should consider whether the act of subscribing to your OnlyFans is something you’d want to see all men in the world undertake, i.e. me, your own son. Obviously this renders it immoral since it fails Kant’s Categorical Imperative.

    Now she just think that I’m trying to make an elaborate argument that justifies me subscribing to her OnlyFans because I’m a perv and she starts crying whenever she sees me. She’s threatened that I’ll have to move out but I think it’s a bluff.

    I’m giving up on invoking the Categorical Imperative and need some other moral arguments. Unfortunately I’ve spent the last seven years of my life pretty much exclusively reading Kant and secondary sources on Kant, so I don’t have a good grasp on non-Kantian morality.

    Any help would be appreciated.