The platinum rule has many instantiations: legal and colloquial, translated and mistranslated, felt and understood. It powers politics, commands communities, and nurtures nature. The platinum rule is at times slippery or fuzzy in the distance, but at all times, it is.

While the platinum rule is often exercised in connection, it is only known to have been followed internally. Two people might do the same action at the same time at the same place with the same intention and the same countenance, but one is adhering to the platinum rule and the other is not. It is essential to life and to living. Some know this consciously, others unconsciously, others not at all.

If a person feels particularly burdened, they might set down the platinum rule in order to mourn, or grieve, or contemplate, or focus; they might forget about it altogether. That's okay because the platinum rule is obeyed whenever it's rediscovered, picked back up, and embraced. Because the platinum rule is an attitude, an orientation, it is invoked in both playgrounds and prisons, in bedrooms and on battlefields, momentarily and eternally. It's antifragile: even in the depths of despair, even when subsumed by scarcity, even in the throes of terror, the platinum rule is available to offer respite. A beacon, a safe haven, an offering, a prayer. The platinum rule, in all circumstances, is there.

Some people would have others believe that the platinum rule ought to be discarded or ignored. They trivialize it and point to situations where it is seemingly detrimental. But there is always an internal knowing. Like blood, like air, the platinum rule courses through everyone.

The platinum rule fosters internal sovereignty, communal synergy, and ineffable sacredness. May it be known. May it be maintained. May it be remembered.