Categorical Imperative and Cheating?

According to Kant’s Categorical Imperative Theory everyone should act in a way that their actions could be used as a universal Law. Kant shows us that categorical “oughts” are possible because we have reason, which makes categorical Oughts rational. For example, cheating on a test, if a person cheated on the test to get a better grade, and his maxim was made into universal law. Then everyone would cheat on the Test to get a better grade. But that law would actually defeat the purpose of giving the test because everyone who took the test would have similar grades, making the law contradictory to itself. But in fact to get a better grade on a test a person should study to get a better grade.

Does Happiness Have Intrinsic Value?

The definition of intrinsic is actually defined as the inherent worth of something, independent of its value to anyone or anything else. And Happiness is a state of pleasure and/or the showing of contentment. I do not think that happiness has any intrinsic value because that would mean that you can experience happiness with out any outside influence or only within itself. And in almost all cases happiness always happens because of an external source that makes a person or group happy. Happiness has probably the opposite of intrinsic value known as extrinsic value, which would make a person happy through an outside source. An example of this would be, if you got a gift you would be happy, making the gift an outside source, which then the gift would make you happy. It would be practically Impossible for Happiness to have Intrinsic value because without any outside influence, what kind of emotions would a person possibly have?