There are a lot of commonalities regarding what humans generally want for the non-specific ethics of reciprocity to be useful.
Even more so, what humans don’t want.
Or, for that matter, what non-human entities want. Thanks to the collapse of the rule of law at the federal level, businesses who can’t afford access to Trump are abandoning the US if they can’t pay the expected tribute to Trump, or can’t get in his good graces on ideological grounds. It turns out companies like an economy in which the rules are consistent for everyone.
This highlights a big flaw in the golden rule: people want different things
Perhaps unsurprisingly this has been a thing in philosophy of ethics for awhile now. Copper rule gang rise up!
Copper Rule:
Basically treat people how they want to be treated.
There are a lot of commonalities regarding what humans generally want for the non-specific ethics of reciprocity to be useful.
Even more so, what humans don’t want.
Or, for that matter, what non-human entities want. Thanks to the collapse of the rule of law at the federal level, businesses who can’t afford access to Trump are abandoning the US if they can’t pay the expected tribute to Trump, or can’t get in his good graces on ideological grounds. It turns out companies like an economy in which the rules are consistent for everyone.