Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Some analysts put the ‘Golden Rule’ at the heart of ethics, saying ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ But it has its problems. Someone with a bad leg might want others to help them upstairs, but be themselves incapable of doing the same to others. I might help a blind person across the road, but I don’t want anyone to do that for me. Far more valid is the negative of that Golden Rule: ‘Do not do unto others what you do not want done to yourselves.’ I don’t want others to injure me or to take my stuff, so I don’t do that to them. … It has turned out in practice that nations that embrace liberty have been more successful economically.” (02/25/25)