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minus-squareShiggles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·18 days agoDo unto others as you want done unto you. Basically all of game theory. The threat of a guillotine. These are all extremely basic and rational arguments that merely ask you not to be a dickhead.
minus-squareWatDabney@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·18 days agoOr more pointedly, they are all things that illustrate ways in which it’s in your rational self-interest to not be a dickhead.
minus-squareEllen_musk_ox@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoBut the golden rule presents the flaw of self interests. The golden rule relies on you presuming others want to be treated the same as you. You shouldn’t treat others as you’d like. You should treat others as they’d like.
Do unto others as you want done unto you. Basically all of game theory. The threat of a guillotine. These are all extremely basic and rational arguments that merely ask you not to be a dickhead.
Or more pointedly, they are all things that illustrate ways in which it’s in your rational self-interest to not be a dickhead.
But the golden rule presents the flaw of self interests. The golden rule relies on you presuming others want to be treated the same as you.
You shouldn’t treat others as you’d like. You should treat others as they’d like.