• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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        The first one.

        People forget that it implies you’re merely a good model or reference point for how you should treat others, and that it doesn’t work when it comes to subjective interests or interactions where what you’re doing regarding someone else is circumstantial.

        The “rules for thee but not for me” mindset should be avoided, but circumstances should not be ignored. The other day, I was asked “you don’t like being banned for being violent, why would you ban someone else for being violent” and it’s just messy.

        • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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          Luigi Mangione treated Brian Robert Thompson exactly how Brian Robert Thompson treated others. Treat others the way you want to be treated, lest others treat you the way you treat others. Luigi Mangione judged Brian Robert Thompson according to the Golden Rule. Right or wrong, Luigi Mangione’s actions were a direct and terrifying application of the Golden Rule.

          Brian Robert Thompson murdered approximately 40 human beings every single day. And for that, he became a victim of murder himself. The Golden Rule put him in his grave.

          • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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            34 minutes ago

            Luigi: “I don’t want to be killed, so I won’t kill anyone.”

            Also Luigi: kills someone

            That’s not the golden rule. And where is it established either of them murdered forty humans everyday?