Efficacy

Rather than respond comment by comment, I'm going to drop back and address the fundamental point. You believe that if more and more people followed "Treat others as you would like to be treated," then the world would be a better place. The premise of this is that virtually everyone -- save masochists -- wish to be treated decently; thus, they'll treat others the same way. It's difficult to argue that would be true, if people abided by it.

Two basic questions:

1. Why don't more people abide by it?
2. Do you believe that those who presently do not abide by it will be persuaded to start because others are either saying it, or perhaps doing it to some degree?

Your "vision statement" (ugh) is a good thought. I just don't see how it'll ever be effective. Not in a world where evil exists and seeks to exploit every opportunity to prey on the kind and gentle.

(By the way, Gandhi was lucky. His oppressors were civilized north-western Europeans. Were he facing a Stalin, a Mao Tse Tung, a Pol Pot, a Fidel Castro ... he'd have disappeared long before he had the opportunity to have any lasting effect. )