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The platinum rule is fine insofar as it's true and not a bad thing to consider it just doesn't make sense to me to chalk it up to another rule.
I don't really think it is a better rule. For one thing, it's encapsulated in the golden rule as I explained. For another thing the golden rule is phrased the way it is because it's meant as an introspective idea. It's meant as a heuristic when you can't know how someone else might want to be treated, or when you are making a decision that might affect other people without full information of who they are or what they want.
Part of the reason we teach it to kids so that they can have an understanding that their actions affect other people to the same extent that other people affect them.
I disagree that it is encapsulated into the golden rule for everyone's understanding of the golden rule.
The golden rule is fine for kids that are too young to think more abstractly than "how would I feel if...", but at some point you have to learn that how other people might want to be treated is different from how you want to be treated.