Since my last post on this thread, I thought about another scenario in which the Golden Rule is not so "rock solid". Lets say, hypothetically, if there was an attractive guy who would love to be raped by an attractive woman (god forbid!), the Golden rule would give him to moral right to rape an attractive woman!! In addition, as has been pointed out on Goanet before, Rape is not included in the 10 commandments either.
I had suggested Sri Satya Sai Baba's "Help Ever, Hurt Never" rule, as a more absolute moral code. Are there any other suggestions to help Goanet in its quest to find a "Rock Solid" code for Theists, Agnostics, and Atheists? Regards, Aristo. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 21, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Flexible code To: [email protected] Hi Santosh, I would like to add that the champion of the theists: the Golden Rule of treating others as you would like to be treated, is not necessarily unique to any one particular religion, or even theism for that matter. Historically, it has been preached by most religions, (atheistic religions like Buddhism included) and Philosophers like Confucius. However, Agnostics and Atheists too, could follow the golden rule without being contradictory. Also, I do not think that the Golden rule is Absolute (crudely coined as "Rock Solid" by some) as claimed. Masochists could perceive it differently, for example. There is another competitor to the Golden Rule, a teaching of Satya Sai Baba that goes "Help ever, Hurt never". While one may argue that again the word "hurt" is not absolute, it is certainly more "rock solid" than the golden rule. Again, this rule may seem too constricted, as in a secular democracy, people's sentiments are bound to get "hurt" one time or the other. Regards, Aristo. Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:30:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Flexible code So, as we can see, religion does not give us a rock solid moral code that has survived unchanged for thousands of years, as was erroneously stated in this forum. The post below and the religious texts themselves provide us with ample facts in support of this contention. These facts are as follows: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20060627/911230a7/attachment.htm _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
