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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 8260861" data-attributes="member: 57112">The reference to the Golden Rule is a big red flag, actually. Those of us don't work in Equity, Inclusion, Trauma-Informed anything really, even something as seemingly benign as TTRPGs, have come to understand the shortcomings of the Golden Rule. It looks good on paper; it seems to teach people about mutual respect. Unfortunately, what it really teaches you to do is universalize your specific experiences and needs. You begin to think that if you are okay with being treated a certain way, then everybody should be okay with that. And when people aren't, it can lead to accusations of insincerity and ulterior motives. We tend to use instead the "Platinum Rule" which states "Treat people the way they want to be treated." Now, on its face this sounds like recipe for abuse, but the Platinum Rule is meant to be reciprocal; a mutual level of respect that understands that people have different needs, wants, and triggers, and that everyone deserves to be treated with respect, however they define that for themselves. Of course, this is a lot more difficult than simply using your own experiences as your primary metric for interacting with others, and it's easy to make mistakes out of ignorance,  but it does a far better job of capturing and respecting the vast diversity of human experience. In other words, in the real world, what's good for the goose is rarely what's going to be good for the gander.</blockquote>

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