No Golden Rule: it’s bronze at best

“Damien, since you are concerned with values, would you find yourself in agreement with “treating others as you would want to be treated” as the core relational belief?” – Questioner

My response, To me, true morality is not starting with an us or me-focused morality, as morality is a social interaction exchange, thus, it must be other-focused. “treating others as they should be treated.” To me, I see everyone as owning themselves all equal in this right as humans. Moreover, to me, morality is behavioral and a social property, there is no immoral thing one can do to themselves as one cannot violate themselves or their own consent as they choose their own actions. Thus, to me, all morality is about others and our interactions with them and them with us. So, morality arises in a social context context with all things, not that all things have the same moral weight. Therefore, moral relationships with life outside humans has a different moral weight or value. Such as, killing 100 humans is not the same as killing 100 dogs, killing 100 fish, killing 100 flies, etc. Of course, the method of killing used should inflict the least amount of suffering to the animal or plant. And to not do that could make it immoral. Such as torturing them to death is immoral even if the killing was not.

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