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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
One interesting thing about the Golden Rule is that, in saying "do unto others what you would have done unto you," it raises the question of what, exactly, you would have done unto you.
And there's the rub. For it always seems to be the people who, deep down, do not believe they themselves are worthy of compassion or love who cannot offer it to others. We tend to believe of others exactly what we believe of ourselves. The miser thinks everyone else is a greedy SOB who wants to take his precious money. The liar and the cheat trusts no one and suspects everyone. The "true believer" who thinks himself deserving of damnation in the next life for breaking some commandment will usually have no qualms about subjecting someone else to misery in this life for doing the same. And so it goes.
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I must be in it for the right reasons, then.
