RE: The Golden Rule ? Sense or Bullshit?
July 23, 2013 at 7:23 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2013 at 7:25 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 23, 2013 at 2:05 am)Attie Wrote: I quote the following;
Quote:All the most reasonable teachings of human wisdom concerning justice are summed up in that famous adage: Do unto others that which you would that others should do unto you; Do not unto others that which you would not that others should do unto you. But this rule of moral practice is unscientific: what have I a right to wish that others should do or not do to me? It is of no use to tell me that my duty is equal to my right, unless I am told at the same time what my right is.
How many things in life do we just accept without really looking at it closely?
Religion has caused many cultures of nonthinking to occur. This I see as the root of the God-problem namely educated non-thinkers.
I suffer from the same educational problems but at least I try and see through them as much as possible.
Do you agree? Sense or Bullshit?
It is the mere verbalization of just one of the instinctive perception that form the basis of species' social behavior repertoire. Its roots can clearly be observed in chimps.
The Christians in their inanity is making but a de facto acknowledgment that their Jesus was but an ordinary confidence fraudester trading in pseudo-profundities, and they themselves shallow ignorant impressionable yokels, when they label this as golden rule uniquely bequeathed onto them by their jesus. It was bequeathed onto them by their common ancestor with the chimps.