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The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He filled his lungs slowly, then emptied them. Worry was doing no good. Live now, he told himself, rehearsing one of the standard Shin aphorisms. The future is a dream. And yet, a part of his thoughts—a voice that refused to be stilled or settled—reminded him that not all dreams were pleasant, that sometimes, no matter how one thrashed or turned, it was impossible to awake.
The Emperor's Blades
Brian Staveley
In America in 1976, a child living with one or more substitute parents was about one hundred times more likely to be fatally abused than a child living with natural parents. In a Canadian city in the 1980s, a child two years of age or younger was seventy times more likely to be killed by a parent if living with a stepparent and natural parent than if living with two natural parents.
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
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