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And I think it's great that the leaders of the religions of the world are affirming compassion and the golden rule as fundamental principles that are integral to their faiths.

I'm going to argue tonight that compassion and the golden rule are, in a certain sense, built into human nature.

But I'm also going to argue that once you understand the sense in which they are built into human nature, you realize that just affirming compassion, and affirming the golden rule, is really not enough.

Now, there's one other result of this dynamic called reciprocal altruism, which I think is kind of good news, which is that the way that this is played out in the human species, it has given people an intuitive appreciation of the golden rule.

I don't quite mean that the golden rule itself is written in our genes, but you can go to a hunter gatherer society that has had no exposure to any of the great religious traditions, no exposure to ethical philosophy, and you'll find, if you spend time with these people, that, basically, they believe that one good turn deserves another, and that bad deeds should be punished.

Now, if you've been paying attention, you're probably anticipating that there's bad news here; we still aren't to universal love, and it's true because, although an appreciation of the golden rule is natural, it's also natural to carve out exceptions to the golden rule.

None of us really extends the golden rule in truly diffuse and universal fashion.

So, it's these exclusions to the golden rule that amount to a lot of the world's trouble.

So, the fact that the golden rule is in some sense built in to us is not, by itself, going to bring us universal love.

And you could basically reformulate what I said earlier, about how compassion is deployed and the golden rule is deployed, by just saying, well, compassion most naturally flows along non-zero-sum channels where people perceive themselves as being in a potentially win-win situation with some of their friends or allies.

The deployment of the golden rule most naturally happens along these non-zero-sum channels.

So, kind of webs of non-zero-sumness are where you would expect compassion and the golden rule to kind of work their magic.

I would just sum up the way things look, at least from this secular perspective, as far as compassion and the golden rule go, by saying that it's good news that compassion and the golden rule are in some sense built into human nature.

Eighteen and 19, the middle of the Moleeds, 0.618 is the golden section.

But before we start, we set this golden rule.

I call it the golden circle.

If you look at a cross-section of the human brain, from the top down, the human brain is actually broken into three major components that correlate perfectly with the golden circle.

It's as if some new hit style had completely wiped out the old-fashioned style before, and with no golden oldies stations.

And the matter is a golden thread through the whole Star Trek series and movies from the '60s until today.

The 70s were without a doubt the golden age of "made-for-TV" horror.

Yes today He doesn't work directly for everyone to see, but back then he actually killed people after the golden calf thing!

Nobody goes into a movie produced by WWE Films (whose owner has challenged God to a wrestling match), directed by a former porn director (the man gave the world the Between the Cheeks trilogy), starring a wrestler named Kane, and expects a little slice of art on a golden platter.

George Cukor's The Women remains one of the glittering gems of 1939, Hollywood's most golden of golden years.

Thr first years of Jon Stewart's reign were arguably golden, I though he was so funny, but then 2004 came along and it's where you start to notice a huge chance in the show from there on.

While some may find the 'playfulness' of the script to be in line with the dictates of Euro post modernism, the whole project seems more like a post-mortem on the death of Euro-cinema's golden years and truly fabulous talents --- one is vaguely reminded here of Bunuel but without the charm or wit.

A cut above from the usual straight to video actioneer, Airborne has enough in the tank to keep it going for the full 90 minutes, although you can't help but think of how low former '80's comedy golden boy Steve Guttenburg has stooped to be in such a cheap production (and playing a hard man too!).

It's another attempt to put a career minded woman in her place by changing her views on her what kind of life she has been leading, something Hollywood did often during its golden age.

The desert scenery is spectacular, with the endless sand and the sunshine on Katharine's golden hair.

The pair had a torrid love affair that included her doing business favors for Madsen (with said Golden Eagle).

This is another of Hollywood's anti-communist polemics of the golden 1950s.

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