Comment by JasonFruit
4 years ago
There were governments when those rules were formulated. Unless you mean, "Older than all governments in existence today," which might be true.
4 years ago
There were governments when those rules were formulated. Unless you mean, "Older than all governments in existence today," which might be true.
Reciprocity predates humanity by many millions of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism
Of course there was reciprocity between people prior to the first government. It almost certainly wasn't called the golden or silver rule, but of course it existed.