[MD] The Moral Landscape

[Ian Glendinning]

Andre,

Anybody suggesting "We've been kicked in the ass, so we'll have to
kick back" is suggesting getting even .... a complete perversion of "do as
you would be done by".

Would = would wish to be.

It's just a simple statement of the Buddhist (Vedic and earlier) golden rule
"don't do as you would not be done by if you prefer". It's a proactive
statement about living life.

Who's the cynic ?
Ian

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Andre Broersen <andrebroersen at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Ian to Craig and Horse:
>
> Apart from hoping people recognize "harm" when they (don't) see it, this is
> simply the golden rule "do as you would be done by" ... core to the origins
> of many (most) moral traditions.
>
> Andre:
> Yes, and very Western as well and to be cynical about it, this is the
> motivational feeding stuff
> of any tough business person in our competitive world. (I'll knife your
> back and you'll knife
> mine), and many not so tough people I might add.
>
> I was laid off once because the company I worked for went into receivership
> ('taken over' by the bank).
> The way the boss explained it (in an apologetic way):'We've been kicked in
> the ass, so we'll have to kick
> back'. I understood completely but I am still a bit vague as to why I was
> kicked as well( and a few
> others I might add).
>
> I like the 'Eastern' 'enlightened' variant a bit better which Steve Hagen
> gives in his
> "Buddhism, plain and simple': 'Do not do unto others what you would not
> have done unto you'.(p 90)
>
> It is passive and seems more positive than the moralistic 'do as you would
> be done by' which implies
> you should do something or move into action or something...but what?
>
>
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