Chapter 6: Uprooting
"Please pay attention to the rules of the game! Now it's a cross-question session! Your question opportunity has just been used, and you can only answer the questions of the three arguments of the positive side now. If you have any doubts, you can continue with the free debate session!"
Sure enough, in the next second, the host Su Qin helped Feng Jianxiong out of the siege.
also knocked the rhythm that the Academy of Mathematical Sciences finally brought up to the abyss.
Only then did the people from the Academy of Mathematical Sciences notice that their three debates have just been so embarrassed that they have forgotten the rules of the competition and where they are now!
This is a debate competition! A field of wits that prides itself on being calm and meticulous!
If one side is so annoyed by the other party that they forget the rules of the game, it shows how chaotic their minds are.
This is a heavy blow to the strength and image of one party in the eyes of the jury.
Feng Jianxiong quietly harvested a wave of impression points over the years, and he was so calm that he was terrifying.
Then, he spoke slowly:
"Dear host, in fact, I really want to answer the rhetorical question of the opponent's defense friend. It's just to respect the rules of the game, so I didn't answer right away. Now I would like to apply: if both the moderator and the opposing friend agree, that my answer does not waste one last opportunity to ask a question, and that there is no time limit for me to present the issue, then I can answer it right away. Please, moderator, adjudicate!"
"...... Uproar"
There was another uproar.
Qin Mingren's rhetorical question just now, after everyone chewed and analyzed it carefully, they all felt that it was difficult to answer.
And Feng Jianxiong's partial victory before, in the eyes of most people, was just a side-kick that caught people off guard.
They all felt that Feng Jianxiong must rely on the rules of the game and avoid this rhetorical question first.
Who knew he was so big!
This attitude is clearly saying: Brother kills you in seconds with an "anti-counter" skill, which is a matter of minutes, but the rules of the game do not allow you to hit me, so I respect the rules of the game and do not launch anti-counter skills.
If the rules and you are willing to be countered by me, then I don't mind just killing you!
It's just a matter of ignoring the other party's criticism!
Su Qin was also in good spirits, in fact, he also wanted to hear how Feng Jianxiong answered this question. After a few seconds of silence on the host's stand, he asked the three debates of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences in a serious manner: "The opposing side has three arguments, do you agree with the other party's proposal?"
"I ...... I...... Of course I agree!" Qin Mingren, whose momentum was suppressed, panicked again.
Feng Jianxiong smiled slightly, and began to talk eloquently:
"Just now, the opponent's defense friend questioned, saying, 'If those people with lofty ideals did not do their righteous deeds in a desperate situation, but because of some other motive?'
As we all know, what is morality? It is just a code of conduct that human society uses to regulate human behavior.
Note the abbreviation: Ethics is a code of conduct.
From another point of view, this sentence also means that there are many kinds of behavioral norms in human society, and morality is only one of them.
So, what are the common norms of social behavior? The theories of each school are much the same, and I know that the opponent's debater is a student of mathematics and does not know much about jurisprudence, so I will not bully him, and I will directly pick a school of thought to announce the answers.
For example, according to the doctrine of Blackstone and Jimmy Bentham, the masters of the 'utilitarian school of law', the norms of behavior in human society can be roughly divided into four categories: nature, morality, law, and religion————.
In Jimmy Bentham's division, nature is also called desire, which is the code of conduct that 'obeys the natural desires of human beings'. The latter three are more or less contrary to human nature, but the specific ways of violating them are slightly different.
Morality is knowing that bad things cannot be done, and taking the initiative to restrain oneself and not being willing to do it.
The law is to know that bad things cannot be done, and passively being forced by the outside world to dare not do it.
Religion, or faith, is not knowing why bad things should not be done, but being brainwashed by the outside world, not knowing why they are not, and still not doing it.
As our debater said, the examples of poor people who are poor, but not yet starved to death, may only prove that 'some people with lofty ideals have a lower threshold for food and clothing than normal people, and their minds are firmer', so these examples cannot be used to prove the argument that they don't even have food and clothing, and they are still talking about morality, because they are still fed.
As for the example of 'people who can even give up their lives for the sake of righteous deeds' later cited by the opponent's defense friend, I can't help but ask: Maybe they really don't have enough food and clothing, but is this kind of courage to fight to the death really because of morality?
In the Ming Dynasty, there were so many officials and imperial histories, and they pursued to be beaten to death by the emperor's court staff, and they also had to 'speak up', but everyone knew that most of them were in pursuit of 'leaving a name in history'. I don't think this kind of person is based on morality, but I think it's a kind of inhumane religious brainwashing, a kind of crazy pursuit of sunk costs that have already been spent by people who no longer know what they are fighting for—just like Hai Jui starved his daughter to death, which has nothing to do with morality at all!
Those who blocked the guns and blew up the bunkers...... I'm sorry, for the sake of political correctness, I don't mean to judge those people, but you can put aside political correctness and think about it yourself. The so-called 'sense of honor of the soldier' is sometimes not a kind of religious worship? I don't think that the morality of this world is practiced by calling people to die--I am done. ”
Silence, a frighteningly short silence.
The host Su Qin's eyes were as big as a copper bell, and bloodshot burst out.
Yu Meiqin's eyes were confused, and she was stunned.
As Feng Jianxiong's teammate, Shi Nicole is proud and feels that she is fluttering.
Chen Sicong and Fu Yiming, who have nothing to do, are ashamed and admired, and have mixed feelings.
Weng Dechen was already numb.
The girls from the law school in the audience held their breath, as if they were afraid of missing the echo.
On the side of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences, they were all weak, and it seemed that the game was over.
But in reality, there are still 20 minutes left in the competition – 15 minutes of free debate, plus concluding arguments on both sides.
However, why does everyone feel that the game has been decided?
"What kind of angle is this? It's so surprising! Someone who refutes the facts and behaviors from the perspective of 'being poor until he dies' makes a refutation at the level of facts and behavior, but from the perspective of 'even if a person who is poor enough to die does good deeds, it cannot prove that he does good deeds based on morality'?"
"And according to that, Blackstone and Jimmy...... If the jurisprudence that seems to be the two British scholars walks around, all self-discipline that is not endogenous and purposeless can be regarded as an adjustment of the 'religious' norms, and this topic cannot be debated today!"
……
One minute later, the free debate session began.
The Academy of Mathematical Sciences is attacking desperately, but it is very chaotic and has no rules.
Because they didn't expect Feng Jianxiong's counterattack angle at all, they didn't make any pre-match preparations in this regard.
And they can't be on the spot, and they can't check the information and send notes, they have no chance.
The law school was shocked to find that the logic that Feng Jianxiong had just organized was simply a panacea that caught people off guard.
"The man who blocked the gun's eye is noble? Maybe he just wants to die in exchange for a reputation in Pravda! How can you prove that he is for the great and just cause?"
"Wen to death, martial arts to the death?
"Even Boyi Shuqi may be in order to be on the "Historical Records", or simply because his previous status was too high, he was kidnapped by his own reputation and couldn't turn back. ”
"Moral kidnapping is also called morality? It's all forced, not sincere. When morality becomes moral kidnapping, it is already a kind of religious fanaticism! Only those who know what it is and why it is true are qualified to be called morality!"
Some of these things can be said directly, and some cannot be said directly for the sake of political correctness.
However, the freshmen of the law school are still very good at embellishing their words in this regard, not to mention that most of the time in the free debate, Feng Jianxiong carries the whole audience, and the rhythm of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences is quickly broken.
Qin Mingren of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences led his teammates to resist desperately, but they were defeated and retreated.
In the end, they took a gamble and tried to introduce other schools of thought into the free debate about the "definition and classification of human norms", but to no avail, because whatever other fancy things were added to morality, law, religion or belief according to their definitions were refuted by Feng Jianxiong. In particular, the examples of "ignorant but still enthusiastic practice" are simply targeted.
Soon, it's time for the final closing arguments.
The opposing side summarized the arguments, some of which were written in advance, but when he read it, the Academy of Mathematical Sciences interrupted several times and temporarily changed his words, and he was embarrassed to read out some of the words that were set in this situation.
And when Shi Nicole summed up her statement here, she was in high spirits.
Feng Jianxiong prepared three sets of plans for her, and the current situation is obviously the most suitable for reading the first one directly, and it is also the one that Feng Jianxiong spends the most energy on.
Nick Smith's voice was cute, gentle, tactful, pure and simple, and said a bunch of long words:
“…… Students, do you know that there is a concept called 'sunk cost' in economics? That is to say, if a person has invested in a matter before, the more costs it is impossible to recover, the more difficult it will be for him to turn back and change his course. For example, a clean official who has been fighting for 50 years for his reputation and does not accept black money, then he obviously wants to be honest to death. The price of wanting him to live in his later years is much greater than corrupting a normal person!
Many people who have talked about morality all their lives may really be doing good deeds based on morality in ordinary times. But when faced with a life-and-death decision, perhaps it is only because he has invested too many sunk costs in the reputation of morality in his life, so he can only use religious foolishness to support the last journey of life......
All the common sense mentioned above is enough to prove that many of the examples that the opposing side has already cited in this field and have not even cited in this field of 'talking about morality without food and clothing' are actually not worthy of motive scrutiny, and we really don't want to repeat them one by one......
When Shi Nicole sat down, the audience at the Academy of Mathematical Sciences was left with sighs all over the place.
The host Su Qin even reminisced for dozens of seconds before he announced: "Now I announce that the competition is over, please rest and wait for the jury to discuss the results." ”