Is the Golden Rule inherently libertarian?
The Golden Rule requires positive reciprocity, which negates the use of initiated force.
You have a choice…
- How will you relate to others and acquire what you need?
- Will it be positive reciprocity or coercive force?
Most of us choose Golden Rule-like reciprocity. You…
- Treat others as you want to be treated
The Golden Rule is a near-universal ethic.
- Don’t tread on others so they won’t tread on you
You practice this kind of positive reciprocity every day.
Empathy constantly motivates you to do things for others, and to avoid causing harm. You find that positive reciprocity is a better social strategy than bullying force. But then…
Some politician comes along, offering to solve problems, using the destructive methods of initiated force. He makes it seem easy. But he always neglects to mention the victims his use of force will create.
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(4 Comments)
By Release the Spyce June 19, 2018 - 1:45 am
Yes, I want my equal liberty to appropirate land (including patents on handy ideas and trademarks on popular culture). Where’s all the land for me to appropriate alike what some others got to appropriate before? This is particularly important because the people who I especially care about are also tendencially excluded from land appropriation and I would like to give to them the prospect of property they deserve, according to the simple principle of reciprocity.
By Robert Zich January 7, 2019 - 2:43 pm
It’s difficult to tell specifically what you are talking about. Your comment is further confused by your misunderstanding of the meaning of reciprocity which you seem to think is somehow related to property theft (I think?). Are you also dragging IP into the commentary??
If you have a legitimate question or can clarify the comment above I’m sure someone can give a satisfactory response. As it is I (and likely others who read this) have no idea what your point is supposed to be other than you seem vaguely critical of what you perceive Libertarianism to be.
By JackW September 4, 2019 - 1:08 pm
The Bible teaches us that stealing is a sin and it teaches us that the children of the father will suffer for his sins to the 4th generation if that father is unrepentant. The reality is that politics is violence and political government is the bane of humanity; it is not Christian. Manmade “law” is corrupted because man is not perfect and subject to Satan’s evil/temptations; manmade “law” has supplanted God’s laws. The Bible in Revelation teaches us that the troika of evil, that wicked consort of politics, commerce and “false religion,” will be destroyed. Worship of “god-politics” is worship of a “false religion.”
By JackW September 4, 2019 - 12:57 pm
Matthew 7:12 – Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.