Yes, natural law, peace and the golden rule. These things are very closely related in my world. When a person through logic and reason comes to the understanding that we as humans have a self evident trait to be in charge of ourselves, unlike bees and ants that seem to work like mindless robots, no offense bees and ants. Most rational thinking humans then come to the conclusion that if they want the ability to be in charge of their life they need to honor that right in others. Let’s take that a step further. The Golden Rule is understood to mean that one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. So if humans recognize our inherent right to be in charge of ourselves and then if we humans have enough intelligence to realize how observing the Golden Rule will be very helpful in this situation a more peaceful society is bound to be.
So what went wrong? On an individual basis for the most part we observe this in our everyday life’s, however on a large scale, like as a large group or the masses, people can be manipulated by having their fears and emotions cause them to choose to violate what should be obvious to us, what should be inherent in us, that is letting humans run their own life, as long as they don’t harm others.
When people feared hard times they were led to ask the government to make rules protecting them by violating the right of other humans who happen to own certain businesses.
When people feared their kids getting too involved with a drug or herb they allowed the government to violate other adult humans lives by making it illegal for them to own or consume certain things.
People need to once again come to the understanding that they shouldn’t rule other peoples lives. What we can do is be in charge of ourselves and then be the change we want to be, lead by example, observe natural law and the golden rule.
Thanks for sharing this, if all people thinks like your outlook in life then there would be long lasting peace in our society.
Thanks for discussing the Golden Rule. We try to educate our children about this but have also come to learn that the way I want to be treated and live is not necessarily reflected in what someone else wants. We had to add a disclaimer to it but that is part of life. Grow and learn.
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With regard to Yeshua’s teachings on feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, or praying for those who shamefully use and abuse you, he summarily urged that followers “be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is Perfect” (5:48). This far exceeds what the golden rule asks—simply that we consider others as comparable to us and consider our comparable impacts on them. These do not represent fair or equal reciprocity in fact. Ask how you would wish to be treated if you were a shameful abuser or even homeless person. There is sufficient testimony revealing that many abusers and homeless do not at all want to be shown charity, for example, but condemnation or punishment, in the first case, and being left alone to fend in a “street community” in the second. They feel this is what they deserve. (To abuse-counselors and homeless shelter workers, this goes without saying.) What the abusive and homeless should want, or calculate as their desert, may be something different. But golden-rule role-taking will not tell.
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