I have a long-running and abusive relationship with my healthcare provider—specifically, the diurnal checklist required to earn savings on premiums. Within the set of healthful activities to be recorded, there is also a set of questions, only some of which have to do with health. The other questions are concerned with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) proselytizing for corporatists and others compelled to endure this tedious virtue signaling, such as someone clicking “got it” to save a buck.

Having chronicled previous encounters with the faceless, likely Gen Z, indoctrinator purveying this DEI tripe for the sake of my health, I vowed never to allow it to bother me again—for the simple reason that I actually value both my physical and mental well-being. After all, what could those two daily questions and/or “tips” in my email possibly do to crumble my resolve and spark a new ulcer-inducing response?

Friends, I give you what they gave me: “The Platinum Rule.” (Be warned. Reading this may be hazardous to your health.) To avoid any question of accuracy, I include the full text of the health insurer’s “tip” from Aug. 8, 2025:

Go Platinum

Daily Tip: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Golden Rule advises you to treat others how you would want to be treated. Different people prefer different things, though. Try living by the Platinum Rule instead: “Treat others the way they want to be treated.” This way, you think about what someone else feels or values. And you don’t impose what you want on them. The next time you speak with a coworker, partner or family member, pause. Think about what things are like from their viewpoint. What would they appreciate or value in this situation that’s different than you?

First, as is patent, not everyone got the memo DEI is dead. Indeed, while it may be dormant in some quarters as it waits to rear its hateful head again, the more brazen believe they can ride out the storm with impunity. They may well be right.

Second, this “platinum rule” makes it clear that the left’s war on the reasonable person standard and objectivity continues apace. By denying the existence of objective truth and, instead, promoting subjective “truths,” these post-modernists have been a boon to trial lawyers. If a defendant need only claim he believes he was wronged, rather than that any other reasonable person would equally have believed he was wronged, it becomes almost impossible for a defendant to prove otherwise. Thus, when “my truth” is the legal standard rather the “the truth,” law degenerates from an exercise in the pursuit of justice into the pursuit of politics by other means. This undermines the very concept of equality under law, which demands all citizens be held to the same standards of both lawful and illegal behaviors.

Third, in another of the many ironies the left’s hypocrisy breeds, this platinum rule also proves to be a boon for DEI and Human Resource bureaucrats. Ponder how those who must follow this DEI platinum rule are required to make an intrinsic and, in these cancel-culture times, perilous assumption: that another person wants to be treated differently from the way you wish to be treated. Now, how does one make the initial decision that the other person should be treated differently? Does one pull out a handy intersectional flowchart from his back pocket? Or does one make such a determination based upon the very sort of racial/sexual essentialism we used to be told was inappropriate?  

Finally, make no mistake: the DEI cult believes it is a higher civil religion that everyone must obey—even if it is contrary to the precepts of revealed religion. Why do you think they made their acronym—which, if it had followed chronological sense should have been DIE—into DEI, the Latin word for God? The fact that some jackanapes could proselytize a platinum rule to improve upon Jesus’s Golden Rule constitutes a breathtaking level of hubris. So, why did the Golden Rule need to be superseded by this so-called platinum rule? Because the Golden Rule is a universal moral directive about treating everyone equally. “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.” In consequence, the left must diminish, subordinate, and ultimately eradicate this objective standard, which undergirds the entire judicial philosophy of Western Civilization. It does all of this in the name of an imposed political justice meant to liberate preferred groups based upon intersectionality and race essentialism designed to combat alleged oppression.

Okay, sure I have known all this about the left and DEI for some time; suffered the foolishness of my healthcare site; and periodically vented about it in print. And I did promise never again to let them annoy me. If it had been only the points stated above, I could have ignored this most recent occasion of leftist drivel. But, before you think I am simply letting my health insurer get under my skin, let me be clear: I was not triggered; I was tempted. And I failed.

I could not resist the opportunity to write about my health insurer violating its own platinum rule: by submitting it to me in the daily checklist, they did not consider how I felt, let alone treat me as I would like to be treated. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I find the health insurer’s attempts to “improve” upon the Golden Rule with DEI dreck to be highly offensive and, in fact, sacrilegious (as it is their attempt to use the gospel to advance a political point of view that contradicts the words of Jesus Christ).

Oh, did I mention the health insurer claims to be a Catholic institution?

Well, for indulging in this missive I am going to light a candle and pray for those whose hypocrisy knows no bounds in its quest of a faux moral superiority at any cost—including sacrilege, the health and well-being of those they insure, and, most importantly, their own souls.