Mmm. In the end there's at least a fairly selfish reason for not doing unto others as they may have done to you (as in the play example), namely that it wouldn't be much fun to be like them, if you have it in you to be otherwise and know the difference. I know it's regarded as a most un-PC book, but...
"But it can't be that the Lord will lay sin to our account," said the woman, "he'll charge it to them that drove us to it."
"Yes," said Tom, "but if I get to be as hard-hearted as that ar Sambo, and as wicked, 'twon't make much odds to me how I come so; it's the bein' so, that's what I'm a-dreadin'".
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Date: 2004-05-08 11:30 am (UTC)"But it can't be that the Lord will lay sin to our account," said the woman, "he'll charge it to them that drove us to it."
"Yes," said Tom, "but if I get to be as hard-hearted as that ar Sambo, and as wicked, 'twon't make much odds to me how I come so; it's the bein' so, that's what I'm a-dreadin'".
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe