Right. If you're going to act with a categorical imperative

对如果你要按照绝对命令去行动
so that the maxim doesn't undermine itself,

这样准则就不会否定其自身
it sounds like I am going to do x because I want y,

听起来就像我要去做X 因为我想要Y
I'm going to not lie in dire need

我不会因为迫切需求而去撒谎
because I want the world to function in such a way that promises are kept.

因为我想让世界以信守承诺的方式运行着
I don't want to liquidate the practice of promises.

我不想食言
Right, it sounds like justifying a means by an ends.

是的听起来像是通过目的来为手段正名
It seems like an instance of consequentialist reasoning,

像是后果主义推理的例证
- you're saying. - Right.

-你是这个意思吗 -对
- And what's your name? - Tim.

-你叫什么 -蒂姆
Well Tim,

蒂姆
John Stewart Mill agreed with you.

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