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You wouldn't want someone else to kill you due to racial hatred, so that immediately doesn't follow the Golden Rule.


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.




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