This sounds like a place where Kantian ethics would give the right answer. I think, there is some point at which it would be stupid to not seek divorce, and some point at which the promise you made is indeed more important, and the thing that differentiates those two states is not whether you want divorce now, but whether which procedure would it be better for people to follow—the one that has you stay married here, or the one that has you divorce here.
Even if we ignore for a moment the fact that Kantian ethics doesn’t say anything because it’s not well-defined, it’s not at all clear to me that this is true. As it stands, your statement sounds like it’s based more on popular impressions of what Kantian ethics is supposedly like than an actual attempt at Kantian reasoning.
This sounds like a place where Kantian ethics would give the right answer. I think, there is some point at which it would be stupid to not seek divorce, and some point at which the promise you made is indeed more important, and the thing that differentiates those two states is not whether you want divorce now, but whether which procedure would it be better for people to follow—the one that has you stay married here, or the one that has you divorce here.
Kantian ethics would almost definitely say to never divorce. Kantianism is not the same as Rule Utilitarianism!
Even if we ignore for a moment the fact that Kantian ethics doesn’t say anything because it’s not well-defined, it’s not at all clear to me that this is true. As it stands, your statement sounds like it’s based more on popular impressions of what Kantian ethics is supposedly like than an actual attempt at Kantian reasoning.
Okay, thanks :)