Nonetheless, Virtue Ethics is still flawed. Because there are no fixed rules, and because it relies on peoples’ reason and good will, it can often be an unsuccessful ethic. When people are under pressure, they may not use their reason. Virtue Ethics has also been criticized for teaching people to imitate the acts of virtuous people and to follow their role models. Kant says that role models are “fatal to mortality”. In fact, the very idea of imitation seems to contradict the theory’s focus on reason: as autonomous individual’s humans ought to use their reason to discover virtues, rather than simply copying somebody else and bowing to peer pressure. Jean-Paul Sartre taught that people should decide to be virtuous for its own sake, rather than