Someone who is destroying the planet is probably the kind of person who views all others as their adversary and feels entitled to take the earths resources for their own.
By setting the rules of the game that way, they have opened the door to the other people on earth viewing them as an adversary and taking their resources for our own.
doesn’t logically imply anything you wrote.
It lacks constraints for justification.
In contrast, treating others as you would want to be treated (if you were them) implies or suggests considering & supporting their justifiable needs vicariously (which draws on compassion).
You wouldn’t want to give yourself unjust obligations.
If someone wanted a treatment from you that is unjust, and you were them, then you would create an unjust obligation on yourself, so you wouldn’t do it.
If they wanted a just treatment, and you were them, then you would want it, so you’d treat them accordingly.
The element where you liken others to yourself operating by common moral rules is crucial.
Treat people as they want to be treated. The needs of the masochist are not the needs of the sadist, to frame it in extremes.
That’s silly, why should I treat someone who wants to destroy the planet as they want to be treated?
I’ll take your example and elaborate:
Someone who is destroying the planet is probably the kind of person who views all others as their adversary and feels entitled to take the earths resources for their own.
By setting the rules of the game that way, they have opened the door to the other people on earth viewing them as an adversary and taking their resources for our own.
Nah, the rule
doesn’t logically imply anything you wrote. It lacks constraints for justification.
In contrast, treating others as you would want to be treated (if you were them) implies or suggests considering & supporting their justifiable needs vicariously (which draws on compassion). You wouldn’t want to give yourself unjust obligations. If someone wanted a treatment from you that is unjust, and you were them, then you would create an unjust obligation on yourself, so you wouldn’t do it. If they wanted a just treatment, and you were them, then you would want it, so you’d treat them accordingly.
The element where you liken others to yourself operating by common moral rules is crucial.
… if they treat you the way you want to be treated.