Full Being Erica Quote

You place Josh down here and you place yourself up here. You say “That is not me, I could never be like that. That person is Other, is an undeserving, a monster”. It’s an old story. It’s how wars begin. It’s how people turn on each other. And, you know, it starts so simply too. I am not you. I am nothing like you. And it is each time a lie. Because underneath all the layers of fear and the protection, we are at our core - the same. We have the same needs. We carry with us the same capacity for good and evil.

You are your patient.

You are every patient you will ever have and every person you will ever meet.

— Dr. Tom, S4E1, Dr. Who?

Also, Erica herself:

You know that deep down, we are all the same. We have the same secret needs and the same wild dreams. We walk around thinking our secret pain, our secret joy is so unique when really, we all just want the same things: to be happy, to be safe, to be loved.

Not saying the golden rule is ever easy to apply in practice, but they are right. On some level, it can apply to other animals.