Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by paisawalla 1722 days ago
> The thing to note is that the golden rule could be a universal as much as murder is.

Which is not a helpful understanding of human nature at all, which is my point. What I am trying to argue against -- and maybe this is not the intent of the original commenter -- is the idea that the Golden Rule is an innate and inevitable expression of our nature, but say, the horrors of Communism are not.