All You Need Is Love

They invite others to behave the same way

Let me ask, once seeing the distress of others, do the bike forum insulters carry on insulting regardless? Secondly, do you think, would they, having shown some distress about a particular way in which they are being treated .. expect the person treating them in this fashion to carry on?

In this case the Golden Rule of "treat others ..." should boil down to "I do not like to be distressed by others so I will not distress them".

I really don't think the insulters like to be insulted if they are being honest. As I have said "treat others ..." does not work for masochists, but I think these people are many many standard deviations from "the norm" of the human population (and any population will have an average). You can go to most countries in the world, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc and in the middle of the bell curve, and a few SD's out, people are considerate of eachothers feelings, even in heathen tribes. Maybe the challenge of society is finding out why these masochistic people exist? Why are there people that actively desire to be in distress?

I guess we may always disagree that following The Golden Rule could be an ethical self-regulator for society :)

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What they want is no constraints put upon their sexual behavior. They are fierce advocates of constraints on other behavior they don't agree with.

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Is there anyone in history who has had such an impact when working with so little to begin with? Ultimately this begs the question: Why didn't Jesus just fade into obscurity?

Jesus Christ has had more impact on The World than anyone. This is very clear. Did he have little to begin with though? Let me ask, did Three Kings turn up at your birth bearing gifts? (Or don't you subscribe to that part of The Bible as being literal?) Jesus did not fade into obscurity because of The Miracles he performed. Now whether these were sourced from His power as Creator of The Universe (or perhaps "Matrix") or whether he is just a technologically advanced person living in The Universe (or perhaps "Matrix") created by someone else is unclear to me.

Note: It's even possible that the Universe is eternal and not a created thing.

What is clear to me is that Jesus was and is trying to help humanity get through its aggressive stage to some other state, and the emotion "Love" is the key. Perhaps the other state Jesus wants us to be in is necessary for the existence of Jesus Himself? All will be revealed.

Then Men took Jesus' message and decided to make money out of it. It's so very sad and such an indictment on where we are as a species, and I'm sure that He knew that men would do such a thing.