Bob wrote: Sal wrote:
And, there in lies the limitation to the Golden Rule.
It doesn't stop the cycle of violence.[/font]
Well it doesn't stop anything when it's not in practice. In that regard it's no different from any other moral or ethical concept.
But if we all really lived by the principle "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", those brothers would not have bombed the Boston Marathon. That one brother would not have allegedly murdered before that.
Hitler and Bush would not have attacked and occupied other countries.
Saddam Hussein would not have kept his countrymen in a state of tyranny. The Ayatollah would not be blaming women when they're raped. The rapist would not have raped the woman. And on and on and on. It would cover just about everything we do to hurt each other. Excepting, as I said earlier, only for acts of masochism and I honestly don't much care about that anyway.
The principle "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" doesn't have to be just flowery rhetoric. If put it into actual practice, those are in my opinion the most profound words and the most profound concept the human intellect has or ever will conceive.
Because in my opinion, it's the only moral concept I've ever been made aware of which should appeal to every human being who has ever been given life. And every society of human beings which has ever been created.
To not respect the value of that principle describes a wild animal, not a human being. We alone have the potential to live by it if we so choose.
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