Arguments Against The Golden Rule

This is a prime case for if the Golden Rule aside from a pure fantasy is actually an effective rule to live by. Ethicist Bernard Gert, who approves of concept but doubts the practical value of the Golden Rule believes if applied in an literal manner it cannot truly be followed. He states in Morality versus Slogans, the Golden Rule is not really a very good guide to conduct. It seems to require conduct that everybody admits is not required and sometimes seems to require conduct that is clearly wrong. If followed literally, and how else are we to understand it, it requires all normal policemen not to arrest criminals, and all normal judges not to sentence them… So now it seems that the Golden Rule is pretty useless if you are trying to find out what you ought to do (365-67).
Alternatively the cases in which the Platinum Rule is applied does not suffer from short comings in literal application. Dr. Mamta Gautam a psychiatrist writes about this in a case with a family and their sixteen year old son, They both came from difficult backgrounds and worked hard to provide a better life for their only son. They gave him all they thought he wanted, privileges and freedoms they could only have …show more content…
I’ve come to the conclusion of being an ethical person is to be aware of others when making decisions concerning others.Because of this I come to the conclusion that the Platinum Rule is the more favorable of the two because it aligns more with awareness of others. A variety of sources that range from popular to scholarly spanning the form of books, magazine, newspaper, trade- journal, and research articles agree with this. There has been discussion of the Platinum Rule in the field of philosophy, psychology, business, medicine and more. Most of these sources are written by authors with Doctorates in their given field and they all praise the Platinum Rule as the superior