And what does one say to the other who becomes threatening because his definition of being useful to some group or person of his choosing may require him to do harm to you, or even do something milder you consider to be contra-useful?

And that’s just for starters.

Separately, I’m intrigued by the silver rule versus the golden rule. But I learned the golden rule not as “do good” but as “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” or “do as you would be done by”.

That still leaves room for competing definitions but it is not quite so blanket an injunction to impose an arbitrary set of moral codes on the world- it at least demands one allow others the same foibles and freedoms one claims for oneself.

Scott Adams is not genuinely concerned with morals. He is concerned that if people realize how depraved he is, then his books will earn less money.

Thus, he just wants to shuck and jive. He wants to put on a public, visible display of why he is a good corporate community-member.

Adams assumes that his superiors in the corporate world are even more psychopathic than he is, and that they will notice and cynically approve, but that the bulk of his customers are stupid cattle who will be fooled and who will buy his books.

Why is it so hard to see that one’s intuition isn’t all there is to human nature. Have they not traveled? Seen foreign movies?

See The Silver Rule & Golden Rule vs the Silver Rule.

The Golden Rule is simply evil. I know this sounds nutty as hell, but it describes perfectly all the evil that has been done out of good intentions. The Silver Rule avoids this by adhering to the dictum “Do no harm.” You may or may not go to Hell, but that is not my doing.

The reason Golden Rule people despise the Silver Rule is because it puts the value judgments in the hands of the other person instead of their own hands. This is why tyrannical types love the Golden Rule so damn much. In fact, this is the only part of it they love. When I actually put them to the test on their own ethics, they become hypocrites and try to slip the Silver Rule in the backdoor.

Basically the golden rule is left (think SJW) while the silver rule is libertarian.

And might is of course right!

Seems like a real lack of self awareness.