Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[Kaedan]

So as for the Golden rule. Let's say that someone gets really triggered when someone is overly familiar with them. Someone calling them "friend" just triggers them if they don't know the person well. I however am perfectly ok with someone using familiar terms with me without knowing them well. The golden rule would state that I am ok to do something to offend them... because I myself do not find it offensive.

This is why the golden rule is meaningless. People are... different. People get offended by... different things.

Any reasonable person would not be offended by being called "friend" (to the point where they report them), so there wouldn't be any punishment. It is not reasonable/rational for said person to be "triggered" by that. Others have also come up with completely unreasonable/irrational situations in this thread that simply would never be upheld as punishable.

The Golden Rule is not meaningless at all. Yes, some irrational people get offended irrationally... but that's why they have the "reasonably offensive" in their policy.