The Importance Of Moral Choices

Moral choices happen every day, whether we think about them or not. When I pick up a coffee and drink, I make the moral choice to indulge myself, rather than help someone who needs it. However, a prominent moral choice that I made, that I can dissect and expound upon, would go all the way back to my high school years. It was my sophomore year. I went to a small Christian academy with about five other high school students, and about ten primary education students. The school had a very strict guideline, and students were to maintain them if they wished to continue at the school, (it was a traditional Baptist school). For example on every Wednesday, we had to wear dress pants, dress shirt, dress shoes, ties, etc; and this is only a brief description of the dress code policy, which was probably the most lenient policy they had.
Being in a Christian school didn’t mean any of us were Christian. Although I did at the time identify as one, there were also atheists and other religious beliefs held among the kids. Interestingly, I had become a close friend with the most troubled of the lot, and we had got into plenty of mischief on our own. During our high school lunch breaks, if it was nice out, we were allowed to get some fresh air, shoot some hoops and what not

In reference to myself, if I had told the school, then I could have been considered a means to an end, in order to acquire illusive information about other students. If the teachers found out, they could have used the actions of the students, to enforce even stricter rules, making them another means. The practical imperative, in the situation, creates a paradoxical situation in Kantian ethics. It may be wrong to not tell the teachers or to lie according to the categorical imperative, however it is also wrong in how the school would have used the others and myself under practical