The Golden Rule
The first time I read about the Golden Rule (ethic of resiprocity) was in a filosofy book back when I was maybe 8 years old.
I don’t remember the name of the big book, but this rule is one of my more clear memmories about it.
This rule appears on nearly every culture and religion. Althought there are ancient documents in many cultures like Egyptians, Greek, Buddhism, Judaism, Taoism, Islam, etc the most famous version in western cultures is the younger one, taken from the bible in words of Jesus Christ:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
In general is really a very good advise, that can lead to peace, but there are certain situations where it creates a conflict, specially when the taste of what we want is not the same taste of the other people wants.
The most famous of this cases is a masochistic: he likes to be treated with pain (for whatever reasons he may have), if he treats you the way he would like you to treat him, would you like it?
Let’s imagine a not so distant scene:
A Christian would like to be taught about gospels and Christianity if he were not converted, so if he finds a non-converted he would try to convert him… but what makes him think that such person wants to be converted… This specific example is historically proven to lead to war.
And there is were the so-called platinum rule comes to add a correction
The golden rule is a good standard which is further improved by doing unto others, wherever possible, as they want to be done by.
Do unto others as they would want done unto them
I like the Platinum Rule way much better.
