The Positive And The Negative Implications Of The Golden Rule

May 27,2010
The Positive And The Negative Implications Of The Golden Rule
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.

What is a golden rule? As its description, it’s a good rule that is encompassing and globally applicable in all kinds of endeavor that any human being would undertake. This universal rule formulated by no less than the Christian Master is not only applicable and worth adopting as part of our moral values for all groups of Filipinos but also for another nationalities or races. This rule is broad in its scope that whatever is your creed or ideological belief will not affect in its application. It’s a kind of special rule where give and take prevails.
To achieve a palpable realization of this kind of rule, what are its positive and negative implications to all humanities? It has two kinds of instructions/commands: a) Positive command-Do unto others the things which you want them to be done unto you; b) Negative command-Do not do unto others the things which you do not want them to be done unto you. Let us always remember these commands by the Lord Jesus Christ and to practice it and implement it in our lives.
Each person regardless of his/her color ought to adopt and practice this pragmatic virtue where everyone in the face of earth will be benefited. This is the kind of rule where its application and practice is in a win-win sphere. No-one is a loser. Everyone is in fact a winner.
If every Filipino and the rest of the humankind in the whole world will obstinately adopt this commonly practical but overlooked and effective virtue in his/her dealings with his/her fellow human beings regardless of their status in life, there will be peace and order in the whole world. There will be no cheating, no swindling, no snatching, no stealing, no gambling and no corrupt officials in the government and private offices and companies.
There will also be less violence, less hostilities, less quarrelling or squabbling, less conflict. There will be no mudslinging or fabricated stories to smear the reputations of other candidates during election campaigns among candidates running for President, Vice-President, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and City Mayors. There will be no negative predictions and advanced allegations of election failure. There will be no vote-buying by politicians to voters. Who in turn will not be selling their sacred rights “for thirty pieces of silver”(Figuratively and symbolically use here. Analogous to the predicted betrayal of Jesus Christ’s apostle Judas Iscariot who sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver to His persecutors.)
All they have to do is to talk about important issues affecting the country and its solutions. They would be talking about their agenda and programs of government if they will be elected for the positions they are aspiring for. This is what exactly presidential candidate Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro was doing during his campaign sorties in various provinces of the country on the first automaton polls May 10,2010 national and local elections. There will be no cheating or fraud on votes count in the national and the local level results. Every candidate will then have acquired the spirit of sportsmanship by accepting defeat modestly and to those victors to enjoy their victories with humbleness.
If all the peoples of the whole world want peace and order in our Planet Earth, each of us must start adopting, practicing and applying this overlooked but essential moral virtue in our dealings toward our fellowmen human beings regardless of his/her religion, race or color. In other words, the application and practice of the Golden Rule among us is actually Love in action. Then and only then can we have a natural simulation of a paradise here on earth.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)