Kant Tentative Answer

Kant says that we should "act only according to that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law". He uses four different examples to help us reason through this statement - a person who wants to commit suicide out of self-love, but shouldn't since it's not a law that should be applied to everyone; a person who needs to borrow money and promises to repay but never will be able to, but shouldn't do this since it cannot be a universal law or it would render promises useless; a person who has a talent that can help the world but could also choose just to keep to himself, but shouldn't because if everyone thought this way there would be no improvement in this world so as a rational being we will that all of our talents are developed since they are given to us for a purpose. This reminds me of the New Testament, particularly the verse "Do unto others what you would have them do to you," in Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12. There was also a section that said that reasonable people eventually envy the more common people, who are closer to the guidance of mere natural instinct rather than reason. He also says that human strays from contentment the more reason engages, which reminds me of how "perfectibility" in Rousseau's Discourse was what "crippled" the noble savage.