Explain Kant's categorical imperative

Kant's categorical imperative is stated as "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."
This is known as Kant's first formulation of the categorical imperative and what this means is that you should always act in a way that you think everyone should act i.e do not perform any actions that you would not want performed on you

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