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Kant rejects the maxim, "Make insincere promises when this promotes your self-interest," because

    { 1 } - it wouldn't be a socially useful rule to have.
    { 2 } - it couldn't be willed to be a universal law.

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Kant rejects the maxim, "Make insincere promises when this promotes your self-interest," because

Kant (unlike the utilitarians) doesn't suggest that we sum up the total benefits of following a rule.

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2 is correct!

Kant rejects the maxim, "Make insincere promises when this promotes your self-interest," because

    { 1 } - it wouldn't be a socially useful rule to have.
    { 2 } - it couldn't be willed to be a universal law.

We can't will this rule to be a universal law, because this would make promising impossible and deprive us of the benefits of promise keeping.

This brings in consequences -- but not in the utilitarian manner, in which we MAXIMIZE good consequences.

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