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Moral Moments

Testing Your Moral Metal

by Joel Marks

“An 83-year-old retired schoolteacher delivered her own version of the Golden Rule on Tuesday, doing unto a mugger as he was doing unto her. [She] punched and slapped at [the man] who had grabbed for her purse. ‘I don’t remember being hit,’ she said; ‘I was so busy hitting him’.” (Reported by William Kaempffer, The New Haven Register, March 31, 1999.)

For all the verbiage that has been spilled about moral issues, including by yours truly, there is still no better ethical advice one can Give, or Receive, than the Golden Rule.

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