Re: The Golden Rule Does Not Work
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 2:12 pm
do what your gold lets you do
you will anyway
-Imp
you will anyway
-Imp
A man who is willing to hurt himself is justified in hurting others under the golden rule.Walker wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:15 pmThe custodial-engineer who built and paid for the library himself, and then burns it to the ground thereby destroying his own creation, has no moral conflict when others do the same, and so he treats them according to the golden rule. However, that is a fictional situation because the custodial-engineer did not design, fund or build the library. He just takes care of it as best he can, which isn’t necessarily as best he could.
However, burning down the creation that he is entrusted with, because he forgot his place as a custodian of the library as a result of the high-fallutin job title that cost him four years of college with a dubious field of study ... well if that ain’t morally wrong then at least it’s a dereliction of duty.
However, because the custodial-engineer did not fund and build the library himself, burning it to the ground is immoral.
It is not his to destroy, only his to maintain perhaps with some additional cosmetic decorations, so that it can function as its creator and designer intends, at least until lightning strikes for the benefit of the planet’s recycling processes, or a licensed civil engineer condemns and razes it.
Self-justifying suicide and nurturing the suicide self-justifications of other folks turns the intent of the Golden Rule away from eternal life and towards eternal death, since the intent of euthanasia is to kill the unbearable aspect of eternal life, whatever the particulars of unbearable may be.
The subjectivity of the golden rule leads to organized chaos.