What governs humanities moral obligations has been a question many philosophers have attempted to answer. One such philosopher, Immanuel Kant, explains his theory in “Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals.” Kant explains that there are imperatives and “all imperatives are expressed by an ‘ought’” (Kant 507). Ought, in modern terms, can be expressed as should. Kant divides all imperatives into two classifications “hypothetical and categorical” (Kant 507). Categorical imperatives must obey the three maxims, thus must conform to universalizability. This means that categorical imperatives must be either acceptable for everyone to do or not acceptable at all. According to Kant’s definition of imperatives, lying must be considered a categorical