Kent is associated with “deontological” reasoning (contrasting the consequentialist’s logic). He argued that a rational person making a decision about what would be good to do would consider what action would be good for all members of society to do. Which of the following statements can describe accurately his concept of universal law?

1 The “golden rule” would not qualify as a “universal law,” since the golden rule encourages citizens to accumulate gold for their self interest.

2 If you cannot wish that everyone will follow the same decision rule, it is not a moral one.

3 The rule is rendered useless, since Kant failed to foresee that an individual might wish bad results or consequences on everyone.

4 None of the above reflects fairly the deontology proposed by Kant.