[ohman876]

You obviously are against that 'one sect', but natural law IS the thing. This is what most people consider to be the norm that governs how we behave. It's not written down, it's what you know is right or wrong. Let me give you some examples:

- Raping woman on the street - wrong

- Giving starving person some food - good

- Stealing from your employer - wrong (unless you are not paid or cheated)

- Killing random person - wrong

- Caring for your spause and children - good

and the list goes on

And the general rule, written down by 'that sect' in their book is 'love your neighbor as you love yourself', you should prefer to live among people who really apply this in their life, whenever you share their beliefs or not, because it's so much easier to live among such people than to live among selfish people who will not hesitate to harm you if only their actions go unpunished.

[immibis]

In empirical reality, we observe that most people, especially successful people, talk about following these principles but do not follow them.

[const_cast]

> love your neighbor as you love yourself

This is just communism. If everyone did this, you would have a community-based economy and society. Communism.

The sheer idea of competition is antithetical to this world view. Because you would never compete against yourself - but you MUST compete against your neighbors. You would never advocate against yourself, either.

Look, it's a nice idea, everyone hold hands and sing Kumbaya. But it's not a Christian thing, Marx figured this out much more concretely. Like, he thought about the actual economic and political consequences of it.

And, I don't know, maybe it could work. But I think it's important we're all on the same page about what we're asking for.

[ohman876]

Treat others the way you want to be treated. Even when competing you should not cheat, lie, steal or otherwise commit wrong-doing.

[anon_e-moose]

That has nothing to do with communism, go educate yourself, and actually try