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“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.” The sentence dates from 1785 (Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, AA IV, 429). It marks the boundary of every free state’s authority: a person may be held to account for his own actions.
But the state may not turn him into a mere instrument of its foreign policy interests. That idea underlies the first sentence of the Basic Law of the…
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