Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., inspired by Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience, worked ceaselessly to free Afro-Americans from legal and social discriminations. Clearly, if our morality were derived from common human experiences, Martin Luther King Jr. would have gone with the flow. 

But as Kant rightly pointed out, we have in us, enough resources and rationality to work out the moral rules and the categorical imperative. Using the categorical imperative, we can judge the prevailing norms. Racism is clearly treating a person merely as a means and not also as an end. 

Though Kant advocated obedience to law, he was also not in favour of laws which contravened the categorical imperative. 

Civil Society on the Internet 

With a potentially bigger public sphere for rational discussions, civil society on the Internet should be organising more movements to rid discriminations, unfairness, inequalities and other ills from the society. However, is this the situation on the Net?    MORE>>

Or are the people more engrossed in their personal affairs, entertainment, gossips, spamming, etc, rather than the interest of the community?         MORE>>

Do we really see rational discussion in online forums and  what kinds of actions do these discussions result in? Are they of violent or non-violent nature?                                    MORE>>

Another problem is the submergence of morality. With the ease of getting music, movies and photographs from the Net, do Netizens pause to think about the moral and legal implications of doing so?            MORE>>