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"do unto others as you would have done unto you" is a pretty damn near universal law of morality It's insidiously evil. Many of the root versions (and in parti
by EliRivers 11y ago
"do unto others as you would have done unto you" is a pretty damn near universal law of morality
It's insidiously evil. Many of the root versions (and in particular, the early Zoroastrian version, which I think might predate others and was influential in religions that followed) were to not do to others that which is abhorrent to you, but this corruption of it turns it into something else entirely.
- kapilkaisare 11y agoWould you elaborate? I'd like to understand why you see it as evil.
- EliRivers 11y agoIt suggests that what you like having done to you is the correct thing to like, and that you're doing good works by forcing it on other people. It doesn't allow for the possibility that other people have different preferences; your preferences are the correct preferences and you are morally correct in applying them on others. Take this to extremes and you end up taking people's children away because they're being raised in the wrong culture, for example.