Way oversimplified. Have you studied the OT much? I don't mean that pejoratively, but it's a huge work - it's not just metaphor or just history or just myth or just literature or just songs or just theology or...
Would a human being following the Golden Rule want another to have the weight be dropped unto him…
How about the cow? Seriously, I got no problem with the golden rule being applied here. My questions to you are about why you think it's a good rule.
Is it because Confucius said so?
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Because of its simple truth, the Golden Rule (Do Not Do Unto Others What You Wouldn’t Want Done Unto You), rules.
It’s older than all religions; not unique to any; is not unique amongst humans alone; it does not require the selective self-categorisation of the scriptures you call your own into myth, allegory, mumbo-jumbo, truth / half-truth, metaphor and what-nots; it can fish out the moral choice from a wild array of circumstances; and is the basis upon which social cooperation and amity rests.
It’s a single, simple rule that replaces any scripture with their wild contradictions that are conveniently ignored, and hence, is superior.