a discussion we had here a while back, in response to a Sunday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon<\/a>. Many commenters then suggested that the Golden Rule, unless understood in an unnecessarily literal fashion, is really about empathy \u2013 not doing to someone else what you want regardless of what their own needs and wants are, but placing yourself in their situation and doing what you perceive you would hope for in that circumstance.<\/p>\nWithout empathy, the Platinum Rule seems no more workable than the Golden Rule, and with empathy, the two are pretty much the same thing.<\/p>\n
What do others think?<\/p>\n
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