Why Anarcho-Capitalism Is a Canard and Its Implications for Atheism

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Ineffective as in -there's still societal conflict even amongst those who follow it, as there was before someone decided that it might make christ sound smart if he'd said it. It;s simply not in the same class as things like civil law.

What's incompatible with the rule?  If a person wants to be forced or done violence to then forcing them or doing violence to them is perfectly within the remit of the golden rule.  Not just the remit, the golden rule explicitly tells them to do violence -to you-.   The trouble with the golden rule is that it assumes normative cultures and individuals...it cannot cope with sadism or masochism or a warrior culture, for example - things that modern law has no problem addressing.  Doesn;t matter whether or not you want to die in glorious battle to gain entrance to valhalla...you can't, on that basis - the basis of the golden rules provisions - attack me.     

It appears as though people who -do- believe that a sky fairy is watching break the rule about as often as people who don;t believe that a sky fairy is watching follow the rule.  

I'd prefer the third option, those who follow our better developed and better thought out laws.  I;m already surrounded by golden rulers, obviously it's not enough, the prison is full of them.

You're correct about it not being in the same class as civil law, which is the control of behavior by threat or application of force.  The golden rule is a law of self-governance.  And there is no conflict among those who follow it - there are few, or none who do follow it.

That's a good start on the limitations of the rule - it is on considerations like those that there are few, if any, who follow it.  I have not found many who actually and truly want to be forced - such would lack initiative - nor have I found many who want violence done to them outside limited bedroom kinkiness.  I think it's fair to say I haven't actually physically met any. 

And people who *claim* to believe in a sky fairy may not, in fact, believe at all.  There are social-hierarchical benefits to pretending to believe what one doesn't believe.