It's difficult to satisfy the golden rule.
It's difficult to satisfy the golden rule.
It's difficult for most of us. All our consistency principles are hard to satisfy. Since we have limited intellectual clarity, we find it hard to be logically consistent in our beliefs. Since we have limited self-control, we find ends-means consistency difficult. Since we have a tendency toward selfishness, we find GR difficult.
It's difficult to satisfy the golden rule.
A saint might complain that our GR isn't demanding enough. GR is phrased in terms of how we consent to being treated, or how we are (minimally) willing to be treated ourselves. This doesn't call us to heroic generosity so much as to minimally acceptable standards. If you're a saint, you might want to go further -- to treat others with the generosity with which you'd prefer to be treated. This GR goes beyond the demands of my system of formal ethics.