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by Jiro 1632 days ago
Because your rule will be implemented by people applying the rule to their own beliefs. And everyone thinks their own beliefs are correct.
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No.

Lots of people follow their conviction; travel far away to hurt others and deminish their and others humanity, that might be to help someone but in the end it's not ethical. Recently there was an discussion about the quote from Aristotle¹ that can be shorten to "virtues are actions, not words", but that leads to misinterpretations. Same with this quote from Tutu, you can not take it out of context and make it out as neutral to the ethics.

[¹] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29662031