Author.....please

[Thief]

Who gets the credit?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

 

[MikeDwight]

Whats with the weird thread? I voted Moses but I'm not at all sure about that. Maybe it's not a Jewish custom in the Moses timeperiod.

 

[Howard Is]

Who gets the credit?

The heart that understands and acts on it.

 

[Howard Is]

I wrote this way back...after washing down Christ’s body with some of His blood.




I sit like a statue and wait for the shock


Some mysteries only your death will unlock


The space in your heart is the space in the rock


The music is breathing, my heart‘s hardly beating

And all of my thoughts swim like fish in the sea


The vision inscribes shining words in my heart


No need to believe them

The body receives them

And moves to the rhythm the silence imparts

 

[Heyo]

Who gets the credit?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

It is attributed to Jesus in the bible (Luke 6:31) but the Golden Rule has been formulated in other cultures (most likely independently). Golden Rule - Wikipedia
We don't know if the author of Luke did get it from an outside source or from a chain of sources going back to Jesus.
I'd say that the credit for the exact formulation goes to the author of Luke but the credit for the idea of the Golden Rule is shared among multiple sources.

 

[Sunstone]

Who gets the credit?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

Almost certainly evolution gets the credit -- for having evolved in us an instinct to reciprocate.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Confucius, sixth century BC, had a version, so it's likely it even existed prior to this - unless we award him the prize. I suspect, like many others, that it comes from group membership when one might be evicted from the group if one did something too harmful for the group rather than just for a particular individual. Hence, something that enhanced group membership more than anything else. Still does so, but many seem quite able to loosen what 'harms' might mean to others - like exploiting them whilst claiming you are doing them a favour.

 

[Thief]

Almost certainly evolution gets the credit -- for having evolved in us an instinct to reciprocate.

?????

we humans evolved of a species that snatch and run
a species that strikes hard with self continuance as motivation

apes do such things

and to calm some of it.....Moses did write
an eye for an eye
a tooth for a tooth

if an ape could consider the pending loss to himself he might refrain
doing so unto others

THAT law reciprocates
is it retroactive
reflexive

the Golden rule is proactive

the other guy is considered.....first