Karen Armstrong, who wrote the main article from yesterday, provides this TED Talk. Her main premise, "let's revive the Golden Rule". I love this idea. Many brush off the idea as simplistic and grade-schoolesque. Treating others as we wish to be treated somehow displays a naivete about the way the world really works. I disagree. If we all treated others the way we wish to be treated, we may see others as human beings and not instruments. Most problems in our world begin the the dehumanization of other peoples- holocausts to genocides to terrorism. I believe love and compassion will always win in the long run over hate and evil.
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