I suppose it can be good to treat others as you want them to treat you, but for me it's is not that important, I mean I don't have much expectations about how people should treat me.
Why is this idea of treating others the way you want to be treated, important? If I do it, I do it completely automatically. I don't find it a big deal.
To reply to this one, and your last one about why I would ask...
Often it helps to get an initial agreement before proceeding to throw a whole bunch of words at the other person.
The reason I asked my question is that we were discussing what it means to be moral. If we can agree on this moral principle I believe I can show how most of morality relates to this one principle. I can even take it a step further, to relate it to Gurdjieff's concept of "external considering".
Remember Jahn said...Jahn correct me if I'm wrong. That there is no such thing as right and wrong. That it is all actually about energy. We could simplify that as qualities of lightness or heaviness. I can then simplify it all in terms of energy. All this is much easier than it sounds.
I would add that some people are 'moralizers'. These people are a highly serious type. Often lacking a healthy sense of humor, and an ability to have fun. Their goal is to be better than others, their morality is to bolster their own self-importance.
Back to the issue at hand.
You don't care what others do to you?
Do you care how you treat yourself?
Do you care how you treat others?
If you can answer yes to both of those would it then follow that you agree it is good to:
Treat others as you would want to treat yourself?
