Comment on Encountering those who go through life clueless
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days agoThat’s silly, why should I treat someone who wants to destroy the planet as they want to be treated?
Comment on Encountering those who go through life clueless
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days agoThat’s silly, why should I treat someone who wants to destroy the planet as they want to be treated?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’ll take your example and elaborate:
Someone who is destroying the planet is probably the kind of person who views all others as their adversary and feels entitled to take the earths resources for their own.
By setting the rules of the game that way, they have opened the door to the other people on earth viewing them as an adversary and taking their resources for our own.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Nah, the rule
doesn’t logically imply anything you wrote. It lacks constraints for justification.
In contrast, treating others as you would want to be treated (if you were them) implies or suggests considering & supporting their justifiable needs. You wouldn’t want to give yourself unjust obligations. If someone wanted a treatment from you that is unjust, and you were them, then you would create an unjust obligation on yourself, so you wouldn’t do it. If they wanted a just treatment, and you were them, then you would want it, so you’d treat them accordingly.