Thought not.
― ian, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)
i try. the golden rule rules.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)
I am so not going to go around blowing people.
― Michael White, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)
ORAL SEX BOULEVARD, IT'S A TWO WAY STREET.
― ian, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)
not much traffic i'm afraid.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)
do what you want, i'm watching big trouble in little china!
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)
No, for fucking real! It's like one of my two oaths. (I forget the second.)
― Abbott, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)
it's something to strive for, certainly.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)
Bigtime. Until they don't.
― felicity, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)
'others' is a very wide group.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 24 April 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)
. . . of taxpayers
― felicity, Thursday, 24 April 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
I used to think this rule was da bomb but I'm no longer convinced. First there's the "I'm a masochist lol" objection. If you try to rewrite the rule as "do unto others as they would have you do unto them", that doesn't work as they might just want you to give them all your gold.
Really the content of the rule can be summed up as "be nice" - which is a reasonable maxim to live one's life by. But suppose one just doesn't want to be nice? What is missing from that formulation is the application; clearly the rule is striving for some kind of universalisability, a logical reason why everyone should act this way. But it fails, for the aforementioned reasons.
If you really want a snappy universalisable moral code that promotes tolerance and respect then look no further than The Categorical Imperative
― ledge, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:29 (seventeen years ago)
my family crest says "you have annoyed me, so now I must annoy you" in Latin
― blueski, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:32 (seventeen years ago)