As to Kant’s version of morality, it was appropriate to the kind of zombies
that would inhabit that kind of [Kantian] universe: it consisted of total,
abject selflessness. An action is moral, said Kant, only if one has no desire
to perform it, but performs it out of a sense of duty and derives no benefit
from it of any sort, neither material nor spiritual; a benefit destroys the
moral value of an action. (Thus, if one has no desire to be evil, one cannot be
good; if one has, one can.)
Those who accept any part of Kant’s philosophy—metaphysical, epistemological
or moral—deserve it.