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Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas  Theaetetus - I wish human beings were capable of maintaining that standard.
We cant seem to manage this sort of respect in any area - from government to personal relationships.
The notion of 'rights' seems to come from hyper individualism. We began to think about what I deserve rather than what I should do. The maxim you quote is a restatement of the ethic of reciprocity with a reminder that we have free will. |
I wish humans were capable of maintaining that standard as well. It seems that institutional dogma has become too dominant a force for it to ever be a reality. It seems that it can be upheld in some respects, but the maxim is broken whenever convenient. At least there is hope and the future.