Do you feel the same? — javi2541997

I think certain things are more or less universal. Largely based on experience, behaviours involving misleading, using or abusing other people in some sense tend to lead to either negative feelings or social opprobrium/exclusion, which leads to bad feelings. What those behaviours might be varies perhaps by culture but the fundamental idea is the same, I think, and involves breaches of the ‘golden rule’ that appears in all world religions in one form or another.

More or less because I think people can flout the ‘rules’ and still come out with a full experience of life, thinking of Foucault maybe or other people I know personally. But in general treating others as we wouldn’t like to be treated ourselves can lead to a sense of burden or of having gone against some fundamental idea of good spiritual behaviour.