Formal Ethics 5 - The Golden Rule

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Correct variations on the golden rule require that we treat others only in ways that we're willing to be treated

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Correct variations on the golden rule require that we treat others only in ways that we're willing to be treated

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All the formulations are correct.

"Relevantly similar" situations are more realistic than "exactly similar" ones, since they are closer to situations that we occupy in real life; this may be an advantage. To avoid controversies about which properties are relevant, we might switch all those that we even suspect may be relevant.

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Correct variations on the golden rule require that we treat others only in ways that we're willing to be treated

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All the formulations are correct.

I violate GR consistency if I act to do A to X, believe that it was wrong for another to have done A to me in the past, and believe that the two cases are relevantly similar (believing that, because of features that they have in common, both actions fit in the same moral category).

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Correct variations on the golden rule require that we treat others only in ways that we're willing to be treated

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This is our usual formulation. But the other formulations are correct too.

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Correct variations on the golden rule require that we treat others only in ways that we're willing to be treated

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All the formulations are correct and are provable as theorems.

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