Forget where I found “The Golden Rule” below, but found it long before I found Chattypants. So, whoever listed the various iterations appears to have also stuck in Shaw’s remark about Liberty and Responsibility. If So and So said that we can probably trust Chattypants to tell us when and where so and so said that. To get the quotation marks in the right places, etc….But what so and so meant to say we cannot know for certain and each and every one of us will come up with our own “meaning”.
Here is what I take to be the meaning of these quotations. Love your neighbor does not mean love the folks across the street. Freud points out how impossible that is. Yes, treat them with respect and be kind to them, but love..…that’s pitching the conceptual tent to high and wide.
Love those peoples in other lands. Love trans, straight, gay, queer + %,@…that list could go on forever because we, each and every one of us has distinct and different DNA) people. Love white, black, pink, yellow, brown people. Love humanity. Love you species. And that more abstract, yet achievable, obligation to love is to be found in ALOHA: RESPECT AND DON’T EXPECT.
Note: The sad irony is that, as Jesus warned, gold is a temptation that takes us away from the love of humanity. And it appears that most of those who have the most gold now are utterly devoid of compassion. Just saying…..
The Golden Rule
14. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
— The Golden Rule [9, 13]
15. Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.
— Confucius, Analects 15.23 [9]
16. This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee would
cause thee pain. — The Mahabharata, 5,1517 [9]
17. What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor: that is the whole
Torah; all the rest of it is commentary. — Talmud, Shabbat 31a [9]
18. As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
— Luke 6:31, Matthew 7:12 (RSV) [9]
19. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
— Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:39 (KJ) [9]
21. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903, Maxims for Revolutionists: