🎭 Joke Beneath the Joke Summary:
Kant’s rigid ethics—the noble refusal to make exceptions—kills him in a world that demands flexibility, not formulas.
It’s both slapstick and philosophical tragedy:
He crossed the street not because it was safe, but because it was finally permissible.
By then, the world had changed—as it always does. The logic was still sound, but the timing was fatal.