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rules, wrote of a rule akin to Christianitys Golden Rule. Kants Do not impose on others what
you do not wish for yourself moral code would not support an argument for a registry to avoid
acts of terrorism. Trump and his cabinets proposals for a Muslim registry would call for
surveillance and something akin to a watchlist for either all Muslims in the US, or Muslims
immigrating in, or some other array of Muslims related to the United States. This is
discriminatory and racist since it has only been proposed in regards to Muslims. If this were
applied to any other race or religion, each of those would be in protest as well. Therefore it does
not stand under the criticism of Kants form of the Golden Rule. It is not ethically sound.
At the core of Kantianism is another code, that one should treat humanity not as a means
to an end, but always at the same time as an end. This is due to the fact that Kant held human life
in the highest regard, as sacred, and that it would be unethical to kill one to save the lives of
millions. This is essentially what a Muslim registry and surveillance would be doing. It would be
putting thousands, or millions, of people into a horrific situation, whether that be a watchlist,
banning from the country, or something similar to an internment camp, in an attempt to weed out
the few that might actually be a risk to national security. This program would be using the lives
of countless innocent Muslims to hopefully reach the goal of eliminating all risks from what is in
reality, a very minute number of extremists, that again, in reality, are not even all Muslim
extremists. Therefore this program would be using humanity as a means to an end, and would be
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act morally purely from duty, each act would have to be intrinsically good, and good without
qualification. To be good without qualification, there would have to be no possibility of that act
causing any harm or making any situation worse, ethically. While the registry and surveillance of
all Muslims is being proposed with good intentions for the majority of Americans, it is not in any
way well-intentioned for Muslims. It is built to make being a Muslim difficult and wrong. There
is nothing good that can come out of it for Muslims, as it is discriminatory and racist, and very
well could cause not only social and mental damage to individuals, but could potentially lead to
physical harm if things got out of hand. This is not only on an individual level either, but a mass
population of people in this country and this world are being targeted. Therefore this is