All right, let's let a full rant flow forward in the deep glory of philosophy.

This is taking straight aim at one J.S.M. John Stuart Mill, who wrote,

To do as one would be done by,

and to love one's neighbor as oneself

constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. To do as one would be done by and to love one's

neighbour as oneself constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

Now, why this provokes such a rant in me and hopefully this will all make sense to you is because of the following.

These two pillars of morality do unto others as you would have them do unto you or as it's sometimes put do not to

unto others as you would have them not to unto you has been foundational to

moral philosophy since its very inception, number one. Number two, love your neighbor has also

been foundational to philosophy as a whole, of course, particularly Christianity onwards.

Now, no disrespect to my Christian friends, but I'm going to be foundational about this from a rational, empirical moral philosophy standpoint, because these are the same ingredients used in almost all variations, versions, and

flavors of philosophy, moral philosophy, since its inception thousands and thousands of years ago.

Thousands and thousands of years ago,

people have been trying to assemble a moral sandwich

using these two ingredients, and yet the world remains extremely evil. These two ingredients do under

others as you would have them do unto you and love your neighbor have been the

essential core ingredients of all moral systems at at least that claim some aspect of universalism.

And yet the world remains malevolent after 5,000 years of moral philosophy, massive debts still enslave the young, war still exists.

Unjust persecution, hierarchies, statism, all still exists.

Child abuse, still exists, child beatings, still exists, child genital mutilation,

still exists, and is widespread in the world.

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