Esar comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong
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So, Kant for example thought that such moral conflicts were impossible, and he would have agreed with you that no moral theory can be both true, and allow for moral conflicts. But it's not obvious to me that the inference from 'allows for moral conflict' to 'is a false moral theory' is valid. I don't have some axe to grind here, I was just curious if anyone had an argument defending that move (or attacking it for that matter).
I don't think that it means it's a false moral theory, just an incompletely defined one. In cases where it doesn't tell you what to do (or, equivalently, tells you that both options are wrong), it's useless, and a moral theory that did tell you what to do in those cases would be better.