RE: The Golden Rule ? Sense or Bullshit?
July 23, 2013 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2013 at 2:57 am by Magnum.)
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I accept what you say but for me you are making a lot of assumptions. First of all the assumption is made that what you see as good and acceptable is also good and acceptable to your neighbor.
I don't know if you ever traveled to other countries that have very different cultures to your own? Well, I did and I burnt my fingers a few times in this respect.
I think my question is really about how practical statements like that are compared to accepting it as a philosophical, spiritual or religious truth that sounds nice and gives us the cosy feeling but are as impractical as can be.
So to my mind it can still be either a statement of sense or bullshit.
I accept what you say but for me you are making a lot of assumptions. First of all the assumption is made that what you see as good and acceptable is also good and acceptable to your neighbor.
I don't know if you ever traveled to other countries that have very different cultures to your own? Well, I did and I burnt my fingers a few times in this respect.
I think my question is really about how practical statements like that are compared to accepting it as a philosophical, spiritual or religious truth that sounds nice and gives us the cosy feeling but are as impractical as can be.
So to my mind it can still be either a statement of sense or bullshit.
(July 23, 2013 at 2:43 am)plaincents822 Wrote: If I'm a sadomasochist and enjoy being tortured, do I get to torture others?Yes! Imagine walking up to a strange girl and you just start rubbing her delicious because you are just practicing the Golden Rule doing to others what you'd like them to do to you.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
