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Originally Posted by rickycodie  i recently saw a blog on stumble that said the golden rule is false. if everyone did unto others as they would have done to themselves, clamity would result.
one of the instances was a E.M.T. laying on the ground with a knife in her chest. a passerby sees this and pulls it out, that bieng what they would want. the injured woman bieng a E.M.T knows that the knife was blocking a artery from bleeding, and so bleeds out and dies.
then i talked to my dad and he described a book to me called gold#9 in which a alien comes to earth and releses a dust that enforces instant karma. a person kills a police officer and dies instantly, so on and so forth.
do you think the golden rule is valid? |
Of course it is valid. What is not valid is hanging a bunch of silly "what-ifs" and "yeah-buts" on it. You're EMT thing for example: the golden rule says just as you'd want someone to care for you if you were injured, you should care for them. It doesn't say everyone has to have an educaiton in emergency medicine. The alternative to the person doing what thought was best for the stabbed EMT is them doing nothing being doing the correct thing isn't an option due to their lack of training.
It's a cold hard world where bad things happen to good people. Mistakes are made.
If there is anything wrong with the golden rule, its that it suggests people are beholden to others whereas I believe people should look out for themselves above all.