The Golden Rule ? Sense or Bullshit?

[genkaus]

I mentioned tribe, because it's easier to imagine this in a small group of people.

And I used government because we don't need to imagine.

A few politicians acting for their sole benefit get those benefits from the remaining people... which are much more than those politicians and that's why we let them get away with it... it's just peanuts in the grand scheme.
If, at some point, instead of peanuts, they start reaping gold and silver (this metaphor is going too far), then the people kick them out... unless they manage to keep the people deluded about the gold and silver . e.g. N.Korea.

You are missing your own analogy. The question was how principle of lying, manipulation and taking what you want would play out within the society. Not how such a society would interact with people external to it. Here, you are focusing on the external part while ignoring how such a society is still internally stable.

Besides, you also ignored the central principle here - "Take what you can, as long as it doesn't come back to bite you in the ass. "

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"Unscientific"? Didn't know that there were any sorts of scientific research was done on the subject of the golden rule, obviously its a philosophical objection rather than a scientific one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule#Scientific_research


Do better research next time.