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Chapter 655 Enlightenment

Major cases impacted Huang Bixia's heart. As a woman with conscience, she could not understand why criminals used "to make others afraid of themselves" as their motive for committing crimes. She could not accept this absurd reason. But Yun Yao understood that at the bottom of no order, it was the most primitive prey of the weak, and whoever is more cruel can dominate more people.

Different classes have different ways of alliance. As a resident in the middle, Huang Bixia is accustomed to using morality to form alliances with everyone, and will trust moral people and be willing to make friends with moral people. Having the same moral concept is the basis for this group to survive.

For the roles of emperors, ministers, relatives, etc., they will not think about morality, because they have enough interests, and the way to form an alliance with others is to speak with interests. Because they not only represent their own interests, but also the interests of the group. If they do not bring benefits to the group behind them, they will find it difficult to obtain support.

In addition to morality and interests, there is also a set of alliance plans that have existed since the prehistoric times and have continued to this day. That is to form an alliance with fear. People gather animals. Even if there is no interest and morality, they will still build their own order. That is to form an alliance through fear, and the strong dominate the weak. This strong can be the boldest, the cruelest, or it can be something that ordinary people cannot do. Even if it is the same criminal gang, they can compare who is the most cruel and cruelest.

Huang Bixia cannot understand the murder motive of "making people scared", but there is such a game rule in the dark corner of the Tang Dynasty, and people who are scared can dominate everything.

"In fact, the gap between people is really even larger than that between people and monsters. It is useless to rely on education alone. It is still necessary to let more people escape from the dark corners to make the Tang Dynasty a better place. Providing education for them is only one aspect, and it should also provide job opportunities to pay moral costs. After all, Mencius said, "Those who have constant property have perseverance" because maintaining morality also requires costs."

"What is the cost of maintaining morality? Isn't it okay to not eat food given by giving it a pity? Didn't Master Meng also say 'Wealth and honor cannot be lustful, poverty and humbleness cannot be moved, and power and force cannot be betrayed'?" Huang Bixia is also a well-read book and has a lot of people, so she believes that the princess is distorting the power of morality, and saying that morality requires cost is nonsense.

"Mr., you are too careless in your study. The goals of these two sentences are different. Just like what I said just now, the gap between people is greater than that between people and demons. Those who have constant property have perseverance are targeted by Mencius, and what you said is aimed at a real man. Can the people be the same as a real man? Real man is a person with faith. They can indeed not eat food given by giving a pity, but the people only know etiquette when the granaries are full, and they know honor and disgrace when they have enough food. Because morality has costs, you waste your time when doing a good thing.

And energy, but it may not be rewarded. How could an ordinary person who is not full of food do a thankless good thing? Only when he eats and drinks can he comply with moral norms. If a person can sacrifice his life for justice even if he is not full of food, then this person is a real man.” "We must recognize the unity of the human race, but we must also recognize the differences and complexity of the human race." Yun Yao began to start to talk about dialectics again, because dialectics is really a good thing, maintain unity and observe differences and understand complexity.

The difference between people is even greater than that between people and monsters. In the words of Zhuangzi’s good friend Shi Hui, it is: big similarity but small similarity is different, this is called small similarity; all things are the same and different, this is called big similarity.

Different classes adopt different ways of alliance, which means they are similarities and differences. As social animals, humans need to form alliances no matter what class or means they use. This is similarities and differences.

Alliance is a necessity. Although the means vary according to different classes, there is no distinction between good and bad. After all, the best way is the best way. The real advantage or bad is the social environment. Yun Yao believes that only by changing the social environment can everyone be educated. But some people believe that education should be first to change the environment.

It all makes sense, because if you don’t educate, how can you know that the social environment you are in is unreasonable? How can you generate the motivation to break through the social environment?

But if there is only education and no other support, it is difficult to break through the environment by relying solely on people in the environment. It may take hundreds of years and generations to continuously work and accumulate, and no accidents can happen.

Therefore, Yunyao believes that it is much easier to improve material conditions first, and then educate them. After all, the economic foundation determines the superstructure.

The female princess was unable to refute when she heard Yun Yao say that Min and real men were different. She could not confuse her. She could not ask for promotion to the common people by using the standards of asking for real men. But she still said in a tangled way: "Isn't morality consciously abide by everyone?"

"As far as I have traveled around the mortal world for hundreds of years, it is obvious that it is not. Morality needs guidance, and only a few people will consciously abide by it. People who consciously abide by morality basically have a certain economic status, and their moral requirements are not for themselves, but for others, and they hope that others will not touch their interests. If someone really abides by morality from the bottom of their hearts, it is a gentleman and a real man." A gentleman and a real man are rare creatures in the mortal world. Although Yun Yao has seen many, the proportion is very small based on the leap of hundreds of years.

"So our work is not to be confused for a criminal, but to clearly understand our tasks, that is, to eliminate the dark environment of the Tang Dynasty and let everyone have the strength to pay moral costs. At that time, everyone will naturally be moral and shameless." "So your work is also very important, because you are responsible for criminal cases, to maintain the stability of the Tang Dynasty's public security and stability. Stability is the first condition for development. Then I find a way to make money and can make the future of the Tang Dynasty bright."

Looking at the princess talking, the female princess had to admit that the other party's thoughts and vision were above her. No wonder she was a disciple of various schools of thought. Although these words were contrary to the education she received, they were very inspiring.

"In the past, I only knew to talk about morality, but I didn't know why I wanted to talk about morality. After listening to Your Highness, I had a new understanding." In the past, if I asked why I wanted to talk about morality, the teacher would definitely say that this was the words of sages. Of course, I had to learn it. I would never say that morality is a way of alliance, morality is a way of protecting interests, and even the practice of morality would have to pay the cost.

Sure enough, the disciples of various schools of thought are different, and their analysis of the human race is remote. Moreover, morality is not the only way to form alliances. Different environments and different classes will use different ways to form alliances. Although it is very impactful, it is indeed very meaningful for understanding the diversity and complexity of the human race.
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