“There is One Rule”
“There is one rule recognized in some form or other within every major human culture I have been able to investigate … the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Treat others the way you would want to be treated in their place.’
This is probably the most famous moral rule ever promulgated. And it’s found in culture after culture, every time and place. It’s expressed in many forms, but the main thrust is remarkably the same. Here are a few examples:
Confucianism: ‘Do not do unto others what you would not want them to do unto you.’
Buddhism: ‘Seek for others the happiness you desire for yourself. Hurt not others with that which pains you.’
Hinduism: ‘All your duties are included in this: Do nothing to others that would pain you if it were done to you.’
Judaism: ‘That which is hurtful to you, do not do to your fellow man.’
Islam: ‘Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would not like to be treated. No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.’
Taoism: ‘View your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.’
Christianity: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ (If Aristotle Ran General Motors, Tom Morris)
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