No, nothing to do with gods at all, you're missing the point. The quotes are all variations of "Treating others the way you want to be treated". I'm saying I disagree with this statement because everyone has a different idea of what good treatment would be.
examples:
A women who thinks her role in life is to be subservient to her husband, will believe that others should be treated the same. Other women may disagree, but "subservient woman" will do her utmost to pass laws etc.. to "help" other women toward this goal.
A religious person who firmly believes that Allah IS in everyones life may happily agree to establishing an Islamic Theocracy in the UK for the benefit of all, the glory of god and the establisment of gods one true law - its how they would want to be treated is there is no conflict with the statement.
And a sado masochist will happily beat people up knowing he likes nothing more than to be treated like that.
Ultimately if you want to be treated in a bizarre, immoral fashion then "treating others as you would like to be treated" is not a maxim the general public who meet you are likely to agree with
Perhaps I shouldnt have used the word "forced" . If I firmly believe that all people should be ritually killed at age 50 to happily join their ancesters and I go round helping 50 year olds "join" their ancesters, then I wouldnt see this as "forcing" anything as I would be doing them a big favour. And treating them how I would want to be treated at age 50.
Thats not the point. YOU know you are correct in your beliefs and you KNOW that if you didnt have that belief, which you know without doubt is the correct one, you WOULD want people to do their utmost to give you that belief. This causes a lot of problems in the world when people do not entertain the fact that they may be wrong. Note I am NOT talking about religion, its just something a lot of humans do about lots of different beliefs.
Note Im not criticising anyone (and not trying to derail a perfectly good thread), but those statements are not particularly good rules to live life by. A better statement is "treat others how they WANT to be treated, not how I think they do. Even if Im 100% sure". So thats MY motto, even if Stokeblokes is something else
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