The Golden Rule is that the people who have the gold make the rules. In this case, NYC has a whole lot more gold than Alabama. If you are thinking about people

The Golden Rule is that the people who have the gold make the rules. In this case, NYC has a whole lot more gold than Alabama. If you are thinking about people being decent to each other, that is the Silver Rule and doesn’t apply to corporations since companies are rewuired to do the profitable thing not the conscionable thing. In this case: spend money to move the train full of poo elsewhere, or leave it right where it is? The profitsble option is “leave it where it is” because that costs less.