The Golden Rule

Do onto others as they would have you do onto them. Do onto others as you would have them do onto you ... if you were them and they were you. Either one is a dramatic improvement on the traditional Golden Rule ... because in both scenarios we stop imagining that everyone is like us. Everyone isn't like us. All of us aren't like us. You don't treat a senior citizen as if they were thirty years old. You shouldn't treat a homosexual the way you, as a straight person, wants to be treated. If you used one of my Golden Rules you wouldn't stand in the way of one man finding love with another. You wouldn't be thinking about how someone else's relationship impacts you. Universal health care wouldn't be much of a problem for you under my Golden Rule either. The bottom line ... you need to be less selfish. It's not all about you. That's the essence of the thing, the glittery part of my Golden Rule.