Comment on Golden Rule is flawed

Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s very naive. Your way leads to bad actors doing whatever they want while good actors suffer and are not able to fight back.

  That beautiful world you dream of doesn’t exist, never did and never will.

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have examples from my own life where I treated people with decency after they mistreated me, and it ended up changing how they acted toward me in the future.

    I also have multiple examples where I came at them with hostility, and that only led to further escalating hostility.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can still punish people without an eye for an eye.

    If a person loses control of their car and kills a pedestrian, an eye for an eye would mean the perpetrator would be killed.

    A just legal system would put them in jail, make them pay financial restitution, and suspend their license.

    Our actual legal system gives them a slap on the wrist and says don’t do that again

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Counterpoint: Getting rid of the people making others blind makes more of the world see.

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That includes you.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, the moment I start doing that feel free to take me out. That’s, kinda the whole point. The important part is you remember that it applies to you as well.

      Basically MAD except it’s others keeping others accountable.

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      • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re advocating for everyone to act that way.

        If person A acts badly then person B should act badly towards them and then person C should acts badly towards person A and B and person D should act like that towards person A, B and C and so on.

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