Kant's first expression of the categorical imperative, to practice only those ethical principles that you will to be a universal law, allows for no exceptions.

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Kant's categorical imperative states that one should act only according to maxims (principles) that they can consistently will to be universal laws. Kant believed that moral principles should be maximally general and should apply to all rational beings in all situations, with no exceptions.

Kant's First Expression of the Categorical Imperative, to Practice Only