Full Idea
With sufficient ingenuity, almost every precept can be consistently universalized.
Gist of Idea
Almost any precept can be consistently universalized
Source
comment on Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals [1785]) by Alasdair MacIntyre - A Short History of Ethics Ch.14
Book Reference
MacIntyre,Alasdair: 'A Short History of Ethics' [Routledge 1967], p.197
A Reaction
A concise statement of J.S.Mill's point (Idea 3762). The point is that Kant seems to allow burglary, as long as you don't complain when you are burgled. What sort of maxim would a suicidal mass murderer being willing to universalize?
Related Idea
Idea 3762 Why couldn't all rational beings accept outrageously immoral rules of conduct? [Mill on Kant]