Here's a book review I wrote in 2012 about a friend of mine's book, Golden Rule or Greedy Rule. As I reread it I'm reminded of Le Mal de Siecle by the French romanticist Francois Rene Chateaubriand -- same problems only two centuries ago. Same problem: If people just lived by the Golden Rule we wouldn't need the Ten Commandments.

From Amazon: It doesn't take much thinking to determine that the United States of America has deep and serious problems: inner-city street gangs, over two-million in prisons, kids dropping out of high school, unwed teenage mothers, self-alienated people with no connection to history, uncountable illegal aliens, unbearable traffic, road rage, semiliterate high school graduates, rampant venereal disease, hate crimes, indigenous species like beavers and buffalo driven to the brink of extinction, national parks neglected and vandalized, attention deficit disorder due to video games and television, and worst of all--perpetual war.

[amazon.com]