The Zealot's Golden Rule: Do unto others as you are doing for yourself.

Cortes exemplifies this fallacy: I am a Christian, so I'll force everyone to be Christians. "Do unto others" can be justified only when applied to acts which all affected parties agree will contribute to goodness as they define it, or when the dissenting party is a dependent of the moral actor . . . .

(VARIANT A) The Missionary's Golden Rule: Do unto others as you convince yourself they would be done by.

EXAMPLE:Cortes again: "Truth to tell, it is war and warriors that really persuade the Indians to give up their idols . . .

and it is thus that of their own free will and consent they more quickly accept the Gospel".

(VARIANT B) The Marxist's Golden Rule: Do unto others as you convince yourself they would be done by, and do to the rest whatever your end requires.

EXAMPLE:The Bolsheviks "give" land to "the people" by forcibly enrolling them in collective farms while expelling and repressing rich peasants.

Denuded of context, the axioms in Volume Seven do scant justice to either the passionate, contentious argumentation, or the powerfully shaped narratives from which they are abstracted. But they help us to discern the ideological underpinnings of the study.