Kant's Deontological Moral Theory

What comes to my mind when I think of someone who can be moral, but with the right attentions but wrong actions Is Eric Braden known as Victor Newman on the Young and Restless. His character is ruthless at times but, with great attentions. On any occasion or means, Newman always did what he thought was best to protect his family and company “Newman Enterprises,” that he build from ground up.

One of the the moral actions was when Newman tried to frame his own flesh and blood son for murder. His reasoning for this was because his son Adam had signed offer his half of the Newman’s company to his wife Skye. Victor was furious about this action of his son, he always wanted his company shared by his blood family, not outsiders. After Adam and his wife Skye got in a disagreement she called Victor to help her escape for freedom, to start a new life without her husband Adam. That is when Victor came up with the plan to frame his son for a murder that was already committed by someone else.

Kant's theory is an example of a deontological moral theory–according to these theories, the rightness or wrongness of actions does not depend on their consequences but on whether they fulfill our duty. Kant believed that there was a supreme principle of morality,
and he referred to it as The Categorical Imperative.”

In this case I believe that Victor Neman did fulfill his duty.
His agenda was to get his sons share of the company back into the hands of the original Newman’s. Him and his son Adam was like enemy’s at times because he was rebellious when it came down to Victor being controlling or choices on business matters. Victor had high principles for his family and company. No matter what it took to keep things in perspective for his family and company, he stood by his responsibilities as duties. In this mixer of actions was lying and back stabbing but, even though his motive was moral it had perspective and purpose. This was a Categorical Imperative, that he gained from it to get those shares back into the Newman’s
hands.

Overall, I do think that Kent would agree to his actions as being immoral with great intentions. Even though it was wrong to take this action to frame someone for a crime they didn’t commit is very rational. Sometimes when a situation is presented it does not give room for processing in the mind only a first response. If I build a company from ground up and seeing someone as a threat to my company, I believe I would have taken the same action or try to reason with Skye to to come to the best conclusion. I am thinking that this plan was done because if Skye was out of the picture automacticly the shares would have went back to Neman enterprise if there was not a written will.