The battle between the Hero King and the Conqueror King has come to an end, and the life-and-death struggle between Kiritsugu and Kiri is still anxious. But what attracted people's attention the most was the battle between Saber and Berserker.

The former King Arthur, and the former Knight of the Round Table - Lancelot.

In the battle between the two, the BGM from the betrayal of Lancelot and the Battle of Sword Fence Hill in "Fate/Altria Avalon's Court" sounded, and it was passionate with deep grief.

Artoria's glory and her downfall alternate in people's minds, making people feel an indescribable taste in their hearts.

At the last moments, Lancelot revealed his true form, which was another severe blow to her soul after conquering the king's army, if not even more.

The appearance of losing his soul makes people completely unable to see King Arthur waving dazzling light.

For the sake of the Holy Grail, for the re-election of the king, this is the only way to redeem everyone—Artoria thought, with such a childish thought, she poked her sword into Lancelot's chest.

Tears poured from her nearly dry eyes, and she didn't realize it.

With a satisfied smile, Lancelot collapsed.

"King Arthur didn't understand the human heart. ”

This sentence once again echoed in the ears of the audience, leaving the audience with a long sigh of regret.

Now, she still doesn't understand.

Lancelot was only guilty of betraying King Arthur, whom he revered most, and hoped to be punished, so now, he was leaving with a smile on his face.

Lancelot's appearance may not be a coincidence. Because his wish is King Arthur. As long as King Arthur is called. Then he will definitely follow.

The knights were not wrong about her words, the hero king's ridicule was not wrong, and the king of conquest was not wrong to call her "childish", until now, she still did not understand, only she could become a king.

"The words of the conquering king to King Arthur during the Three Kings Doctrine reminded me of a story about a college student in a poor mountainous area, and the villagers scraped together the money to get him through college. After he graduated. Instead of choosing a high-paying job in a big city, he returned to his hometown to become a rural teacher and repay the kindness of his fellow villagers with his own actions. Surprisingly, the villagers were reluctant to send their children to school, because they saw that he spent so much money to finish college, but he ended up staying in a nameless mountain village, so what is the point of studying. According to Rider, Saber is like the college student, who just wants to help others instead of leading them, and maybe this kindness will save them for a while. But the future of the saved is dark. ”

"Years ago, I simply wanted to be a kind person. Punish the evil and promote the good, and protect the weak. Later, I finally realized that it was just a child's naïve idea. Saber's chivalry undoubtedly shines with the brilliance of justice, but can this spirit really be carried out? As rider said, 'Who would dream of that thorny path called martyrdom and even dream of it'. ”

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith pointed out that every human being enters the market out of selfish desires, and only maximizes social welfare under the guidance of the invisible hand. Human nature is inherently evil, and only selfishness is the inexhaustible driving force for human action, in other words: only people's conscious action can improve life. The help of the strong to the weak can only temporarily improve the weak, and the fate of the weak will not change after that. Only the conscious action of the weak can save the weak themselves permanently. The failure of the planned economy is an attempt to stifle people's selfish nature and plan people's lives with top-down orders, rather than allowing people to consciously pursue their own happiness. Lead the people instead of saving them, because salvation will bring only temporary improvement and a dark future. A fan spoke about his feelings about King Arthur.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China to describe it: it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish.

As the Heroic Spirit returns to the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail manifests, and a black substance overflows from the Holy Grail, exuding an aura of "evil" that corrodes and burns the surrounding qiē.

Kiritsugu came to the inside of the Holy Grail, which was the Holy Grail's response to him, and as long as he accepted it, then the Holy Grail was at his fingertips.

However, is the "Holy Grail" in front of him the Holy Grail he prayed for?

On the inside of the Holy Grail, the question of the Holy Grail is seen.

The Holy Grail assumes an extreme scenario where Kiritsugu chooses one of two ships to save the passengers on it. Kiritsugu's contradiction of justice can be illustrated by a very classic paradox: the tram paradox.

The "Tram Conundrum" is one of the most well-known ideas in the field of ethics, and it roughly follows: a madman ties five innocent people to the tram tracks. An out-of-control tram was coming towards them and was about to run over them in a few moments. Luckily, you can pull a lever and let the tram go to another track. But there's another problem, that madman also tied up a person on that other track. Considering the above situation, should you pull the lever?

The tram puzzle was first proposed by the philosopher Philippa Foot to critique the major theories in ethical philosophy, especially utilitarianism. Utilitarianism presents the idea that most moral decisions are made based on the principle of "providing the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people." From a utilitarian point of view, the obvious choice should be to pull the lever and save five people and kill only one.

But critics of utilitarianism argue that once the lever is pulled, you become complicit in immoral behavior – you are partly responsible for the death of a single person on the other track. Others, however, believe that being in such a situation requires you to do something, and that your inaction will be equally immoral. In short, there is no such thing as perfect ethical behavior, and that's the point. Many philosophers use the train puzzle as an example to show that real-life situations often force a person to violate his own moral code, and there are also cases where there is no perfect moral practice.

This is a proposition that is eternally discussed and unsolvable in ethics and philosophy, yet in reality, one must be forced to make a choice. Rawls's theory of justice proposes two principles: "the interests of all", that is, everyone has equal rights to liberty and interests, and "equality is open to all", that is, social and economic unequal arrangements should be reasonably expected of everyone, and that positions associated with unequal interests should be open to all and risks must be assumed.

Based on the former, we cannot ethically make a choice over the lives of a few or the majority, and on the basis of the latter (which is also based on the spirit of the law, so the law is only a bad and unjustifiable but the best choice we can choose), we must find a person to blame: for example, the first five people should not have appeared on the railway, and the first person in the back who had fully trusted that the track should not have passed by, then the driver's choice should be (but not the so-called right choice) to let the car go ahead and kill the five people (because they are taking the risk of their own actions, which is also the due consequence of the accident itself) , if he changes his tracks, it will be the murder of that innocent person.

The principle pursued by Kiritsugu is to abandon the minority and save the majority.

So the scene continues to be extreme, what will Kiritsugu do if a few people on the boat pesters Kiritsugu to force him to save himself? The Holy Grail gives Kiritsugu's inner answer, which is to kill a few people. If the saved majority were to split into two groups and the same extreme situation occurred again, then Kiritsugu would continue to implement the method of abandoning the minority to save the majority, and would not hesitate to carry it out by killing the minority.

As a result, it is possible that more people will end up rescued than killed. In fact, this is exactly the way Kiritsugu has been behaving, sacrificing a few people in order to save more people. Even at the expense of these few, it was not what he wanted.

Kiritsugu's idealism lies in his attempt to carry the lives of others. He is choosing what is good for humanity in a Machiavellianist way, quantifying all human beings as pawns, and their own ideals and emotions can be discarded and discarded, and then pursued a kind of optimization.

But paradoxically, he is making the best choice for everyone in general, and is forced to see and admit the reality that his own way does not save everyone. So he will pin a hope of overcoming humanity and delusions of happiness for all on the Holy Grail that can achieve any miracle, even if he himself does not know how.

However, the Holy Grail's final words to Kiritsugu are very intriguing. "The way you know nothing can not be contained in your desires. "If you want to make a wish, you can only do it in a way that you know. And the so-called miracle cannot be stored in the pursuit of which you know nothing, but something that you have set a wish to do, but cannot achieve by yourself.

People can't pursue things they don't know.

The scene that the Holy Grail gave to Kiritsugu was Kiritsugu's wish.

What is Kiritsugu's wish?

Eternal peace.

And what is the peace that can be achieved by this tainted grail, or by the means that Kiritsugu himself knows?

If you kill all the people of the world, and there is no one in the world, there will be no fighting, and then there will be peace?

This is the answer given by the Holy Grail to Kiritsugu - if there is to make a wish come true, it is to destroy the human race.

But this is not what Kiritsu wants at all, and it is contrary to his wishes.

It can be said that in that moment, his desires disappeared, his means were denied, and his beliefs collapsed.

Rightfully so, he rejected the Holy Grail - and a denial of himself. (To be continued......)