Suppose you created Figure 1-16 using Microsoft Excel.

To do so, you keyed the data into Excel and clicked the Make Graph button (there is one, though it’s not called that). Voilà, Excel created Figure 1-16 without any labels and drawn out of scale as shown. Without further consideration, you put the result into your presentation.

a. Is your behavior consistent with Kant’s categorical imperative? Why or why not?

b. If Excel automatically produces graphs like Figure 1-16, is Microsoft’s behavior consistent with Kant’s categorical imperative? Why or why not?