There are only three major ethical modes of conduct.
1. The Golden Rule: doing unto others as we would want them to do unto us.
2. The Rule of Respect: doing unto others as they want us to do unto them.
3. The Rule of Paternalism: doing unto others as we, in our superior wisdom, know ought to be done unto them in their own best interests.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, March 04, 2018
Rules
Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), The Second Sin (Garden City: Anchor Press, 1973), p. 14: