Living your life by the ‘golden rule’ is problematic. No matter how you define your terms, and I
don’t care what combination of physical, economic, mental, emotional, social,
cultural and/or moral scales you use, no two humans can be measured and found
to be equal. We don’t equally desire, we
don’t equally appreciate.
In general, idealistic terms, your treating me as you wish
to be treated or my treating you as I wish to be treated seems like a very good
idea. But, there is a vast horde of
people out there who treat themselves in abusive and/or masochistic or
culturally and/or socially specific ways that I don’t want to have anything to
do with. And there are many, who I assume, believe that how I want to be treated is dreadful! So I think the rule to live by ‘should’ be;
“Treat others as they wish to be treated and let others know how you want to be
treated. And if you can’t do this, walk
away”.
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