Under the categorical imperative, are the actions of Rightliving ethical? Why or Why not?

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James Stilton is the cief executive oiffcer (CEO) of Rightsliving. inc Company that buys life insurance policies at discount from terminally ill people and sells the policies to investors RightLiving pays the terminally ill pateitns a percentage of the future death benefits and then sells the policies to investors for 85% of the value of the future beneffits. The patients receive the cash to use for medical and other expenses and the investotors are gauranteed a postitive return on thier investment. The diffreence beteween the purchase and sale price is the RightLiving profit. 

Stilton is aware that some sick patiente may obtain insurance policies through fraud (by not revealing thier illness on the insurance app). An insurance company that discovers such fraud will cancel the policy and refuse to pay. Stilton believes that most of the policies he has purchases are legitimate but he knows that some are probably not. 

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Under the categorical imperative, are the actions of Rightliving ethical? Why or Why not? 

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