It is formalistic, to be sure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends. It is desirable for its own sake, even if it fails to produce any natural good. Morality's Ought is unconditional, unaffected by consideration of consequences. Not even nature's laws are necessary, since we can conceive of them being otherwise.
Morality is marked by necessity and strict universality .
Moral laws are universal. The action must be done unconditionally. Characterized by absolute necessity and strict universality, moral laws always apply. All moral precepts are categorical, but the Categorical Imperative is unique inasmuch as it is the foundation of all the others. It is the condition that must be met for a precept or action to be moral at all .