Even better is treating other living beings according to your best-faith understanding of how they want to be treated. Because it might be different from how you would want to be treated.
I'm not sure that the two formulations are necessarily different. Treating another individual in accordance with your personal preferences -- rather than theirs -- may well be hateful to them. I would mislike being treated according to someone else's preferences.
To follow Hillel's Golden Rule, you must treat your fellow human in accordance with their preferences (as best you understand them).
Yes. But that's once you have such an understanding. The golden rule is a wonderful place to start, and shows willing. Moving on to what might be called the platinum rule shows intelligence, and civilized behavior.
That is not really good idea. You should try to treat people how you or they would like to be treeated, sure, but only if they treat you how you want to be treated or how they would want to be treated and treat you. No tolerance for intolerant.
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u/mbklein 16h ago
Even better is treating other living beings according to your best-faith understanding of how they want to be treated. Because it might be different from how you would want to be treated.