Full Idea
To love our neighbour as ourselves does not mean that we should love all people equally, for I do not have an equal love for all my the modes of existence. Nor does it mean that we should not make them suffer, for I do not refuse to make myself suffer.
Gist of Idea
Loving others as ourselves implies varied love, and varied suffering
Source
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace [1942], 'Universe')
Book Reference
Weil,Simone: 'Gravity and Grace', ed/tr. Crawford/De Ruhr [Routledge 1952], p.142
A Reaction
It is wonderful the way most people just accept the golden rule, but philosophers pick it apart in so many interesting ways.