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Re:The Platinum Rule by asavi on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:57AM (#7634795)
You wouldn't want someone else to kill you due to racial hatred, so that immediately doesn't follow the Golden Rule.
Re:The Platinum Rule by afarrell on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:25PM (#7635006)
Indeed. My point is that both metallic rules are insufficient to address conflicts with serious consequences. The only rule I know of which is both simple and sufficiently broad to deal with any conflict is the Iron Rule: "The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must". Yet that is utterly amoral.