[khuey]

Or maybe it just implies that the Golden Rule still exists?

[magicsmoke]

The US seems to have been fine shrugging off the Golden Rule and giving China a pass for decades because it felt like it was the bigger man. Now, we're seeing the US admit that the gap has closed.

[tanilama]

Maybe the gap is indeed closed

[logicchains]

"An eye for an eye" is not the Golden Rule!

[chillacy]

But in game theory at least, tit-for-tat is a pretty successful strategy.

[khuey]

It sort of is, if you think of it as "don't poke out other people's eyes if you don't want them to poke yours out".

[megameter]

The "do not do...what you would not wish done" variant is actually called the Silver Rule, no joke.