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Does anyone has some input?

I'm talking about philosophy, not mundane politics, so countries which call(ed) themselves communist don't interest me here, my question is does the golden rule as I framed it here imply that competition is immoral.

But I do know what competition is and what its many functions and purposes are, both in biology and in society. That's an *is* statement, and I posed an *ought* question. I know what the golden rule is (not absolute, not particularly philosophical - very thumb-ish, in fact) When used as a meta-rule...

Well, if everything that's relevant to the competition being discussed is irrelevant to the question The things I enumerated are irrelevant to the consideration of competition per se, they are not essential, but accidental to it. Why? No rule is that rigid; they all come with corollaries, exception...

But I would want someone to compete fairly with me, Sure, but that's another question. That is concerned with what some specific competition is like, what is it's character. But my question concerns competition in itself, no matter what kind it is, no matter what it's specific traits are. If the go...

I don't think competing fairly goes against the golden rule. This question I posted here doesn't concern things external to competition (whether it is entered into voluntarily, does it have good consequences, etc), nor things in some sense internal to it (such as whether it's fair, humane, are winn...

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Ofc, if this is correct, the golden rule would also preclude debate, being that it is a type of competition, but it wouldn't preclude socratic dialectics, which is a cooperative striving for truth.

A little provocative title, but I would appriciate if you guys here could offer a thoughtful, constructive discussion about some thoughts of mine. Firstly, I think that the golden rule is a necessary moral principle, or maybe I should say meta-principle, a filter through which any proposed moral nor...