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It's not the unlikelihood of you having employed it. It's the likelihood of you having employed it and that not having the results your 21st century self might
by james_s_tayler 8y ago
It's not the unlikelihood of you having employed it. It's the likelihood of you having employed it and that not having the results your 21st century self might assume that it generates.
So maybe 2 decades ago people bandied it about like they meant it and then still unironically said things like "I didn't like that movie, it was gay."
I'm simply saying the function of the golden rule is different than what you think it is.
- Consultant32452 8y agoYou seem to be suggesting that the golden rule is a flawed premise because people generally suck and fail to live up to it. I don't understand how one implies the other.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoIt's not possible to live up to it with the golden rule alone. It's the lengthy political and social processes that shift the behavior over time. Then people remind each other of the golden rule as if thats how we got to where we did. The golden rule as a meme certainly has a function. I'm implying that it's the perception of the golden rules function that is flawed.