The Golden Rule

3 Pages 851 Words

It’s hard for me to point out my good qualities because I may assume to have positive attributes, but people around me may have a negative judgment of them. Therefore, I believe my best quality is wanting for others what I want for myself and not wanting for others what I don’t want for myself. When I consider others’ wants as my own, I realize better what is humane, positive, right. When I look at myself as a different person, I develop values of religious tolerance, gender equality, love for others--to name a few. However, I have always had a difficulty of possessing this quality and probably will always have because it is definitely hard to care for others as much as I do for myself, and ironically my best quality sometimes may be my greatest weakness.
Today, one of the biggest problems the world has is religious bigotry. A Christian may be expatriated from Saudi Arabia for just being a Christian, a Muslim may be accused of being a terrorist in America for just being a Muslim, and a Jew may be persecuted in virtually any part of the world for just being a Jew. I am a religious person but my quality helps me to surmount this religious fanaticism. I respect people in the same way regardless of their religious adherence because I want myself to be respected by people of different religions although some of my beliefs may collide with theirs.
I live in Central Asia and one of the biggest problems here is severe violations of women’s rights. An example is a preposterous and ludicrous desire of a promiscuous man to marry a virgin girl, and even going to extreme of divorcing a new wife if she turns out not to be virgin though the man may have stained the reputations of several girls. If such an egotistic narcissist has ever been an object of public obloquy and become a social pariah due to some minor sexual peccadilloes or a perfidious treatment of the person to whom he had trusted, he would realize that his belief that he has t...