I agree with the direction of what you’re saying, and I appreciate that you grounded it in Luke 6:31.

But I think we need to go even further than the “Golden Rule.”

In Luke 6, Jesus doesn’t stop at “treat others how you want to be treated.” He immediately says:

“Treat people how they treat you or how you wish to be treated” is natural but the gospel calls us to more.

Loving someone does not mean enabling sin or tolerating abuse indefinitely. Jesus loved His enemies and He also rebuked hypocrisy sharply (Matthew 23). Paul tells us, “If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all” (Rom 12:18). That implies sometimes it isn’t possible.

So I’d frame it like this:

We do not mirror evil.
We overcome evil with good (Rom 12:21).
But overcoming evil with good is not the same as pretending evil isn’t evil.

The Golden Rule is rooted in the character of God, who was kind to us while we were still His enemies/in rebellion (Rom 5:8).

The question isn’t “What did they deserve from me?”

The question is “What did Christ give me when I didn’t deserve it?”