“Do unto others as you would want done unto you.” What do I do if someone attacks me with the intent to hurt me? “They have violated the Golden Rule, and as such -” Stop there. Nothing in the Golden Rule itself satisfactorily explains what is to be done when our own rights are violated. The only supposed practitioners of such a rule would be the truly pacifist Mennonites. Yet even then, their shunning is "unwanted." Is there truly anyone who lives by this rule, without inventing their own bylaws to explain how they handle “special cases”? Indeed, this is the downfall of the Golden Rule in a secular context. There is no basis within the rule to account for “special cases,” i.e. any case in practice. You must transition the rule to something that at least has conditions for its own violation to be practical, or create special rules for every “special case.” The latter half “as you would want done unto you” bears repeating, as it has no account for a myriad of factors:...