(November 10, 2016 at 3:12 am)theologian Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 2:52 am)Irrational Wrote: What's arbitrary about not wanting to hurt others? It's actually a very reasonable thing to not hurt others aimlessly.
Also, people were preaching love and no harm centuries before Christ.
If I follow your logic, then if I have a personal goal which includes hurting and killing other people, it follows that it is allowable to hurt or kill other people.
Before Christ, it was the silver rule only: Do not do unto you...
In Christ, it was the golden rule: Do unto others...
Allowable by whom or what rules? Think about what you're arguing here.
As for your second point:
"If people regarded other people's families in the same way that they regard their own, who then would incite their own family to attack that of another? For one would do for others as one would do for oneself." — Mozi (c. 400 BC)
