Inside the Hongjing Detention Center, police officers are installing a TV.

Lin Chen promised Shen Lian that he had never thought of avoiding it from the beginning.

Shen Lian crossed her legs, like a cute little girl, looking forward to the black screen lighting up as soon as possible.

"Where did I go......" Lin Chen was distracted by turning back, so he suddenly asked.

Shen Lian raised his hand, which was shackled, pinched his thumb and index finger together, and pretended to pull out a slender thread, but he didn't speak.

Lin Chen nodded: "At the beginning, after experiencing the choice of a real moral dilemma, I was very at a loss, in order to fill my state of ignorance, I read a lot of books that discussed the origin of morality and the evolution of human psychology, but the more I read, the more overwhelmed I became. I firmly believe in fairness, justice, freedom, rationality, kindness, and beauty...... These things are real, or are they just things that people have made up words to sustain human society. ”

He talked eloquently and did not shy away from this experience, in fact, at that time, he thought that if he wanted to defeat the other party, he had to solve the answer, but everyone knew that no one could solve the real answer.

Shen Lian sat with his arms crossed, the contempt in his eyes obvious. A person with firm beliefs like Shen Lian should naturally look down on an undetermined person like him.

"Some philosophists will choose to commit suicide, which is probably the same reason, the aimless state of chaos is too easy to overwhelm." Lin Chen put his hands on the table and said casually: "It stands to reason that I should also commit suicide." But one day, I suddenly realized, why do I have to find a definite answer? He looked at Shen Lian and smiled, "You see, this is the fundamental difference between me and him." ”

"The genes of the social contract, the natural jurisprudence, the collective unconscious, the selfishness...... I can recognize and understand many points of view, and I can also understand the criticism of those views, so I am at a loss, I cannot find something that is absolutely right. But he is different, he is paranoid, he has looked at the history of human evolution and found what he recognizes, he takes it as a lifesaver, he takes it as the truth, and he instills it in you, he desperately needs the people he classifies as his kind to agree with his views, and he even needs the society he rebels against to agree with his views. In the face of such a madman, what can an ignorant and incompetent person like me do......" Lin Chen paused, he looked at Shen Lian, and said, "All I can do is to figure out what he believes in, what he thinks, what he is going to do, and then ...... Defeat him. ”

The interrogation room was really small, the walls were gray, and his voice dissipated when it hit the walls.

The clouds outside the iron window seemed to freeze, and there was no sound in all directions.

"Poof."

Shen Lian smiled.

The woman looked at him with the eyes of a mayfly, and Lin Chen felt that this was also normal.

"He used the isomers of Tern to prove the physiological inevitability of the so-called criminal behavior, and he used the tram puzzle that confronts everyone to demonstrate the widespread selfishness of human beings," he said. He wanted to prove that the morality upheld in the hearts of most people in this society is false and shattered at the first blow when it comes to matters of self-interest. It's an obvious motive, but ...... And then what? Lin Chen's fingertips tapped on the dilapidated table between him and Shen Lian, and said, "Prove what, the solid social contract between people in this society will not really be shattered into powder because of a madman's game." So until I saw the phrase 'balance game on tightrope', I couldn't understand what he really wanted. Lin Chen paused, his expression abrupt, "In fact, it turns out that he is even crazier than I imagined." ”

……

Hongjing City Bureau, Command Room.

Xing Conglian was not very good at doing this kind of thing, but Lin Chen was struggling at the moment, trying to shatter Shen Lian's spiritual belief little by little, so he had to take on something else.

He tapped to the glass plate and said, "The original meaning of the word is a hypothesis, referring specifically to a delicate moment in the history of human moral evolution. For example, putting aside all the concepts of modern society in your mind, there are no high-rise buildings and no fine food, and we go back to Africa 45,000 years ago, when African Homo sapiens was already anatomically modern. He paused, and then added, "Yes, that's right, modern people like us." ”

The torturer pointed to everyone in the room and said, "We are all in a group, but at that time we didn't have any moral and legal concepts like now, and we looked similar to chimpanzees. There is a belief that it is the selfishness of our genes that makes our actions selfish. At that time, each of us was born an 'egoist'. But as time went on, more and more people lived in the community, and mistakes appeared. ”

"I am powerful and can torture and kill others at will, which seriously threatens your life, and there is also a vote of supporters standing behind me, and the two sides are in a state of confrontation. At this time, the respected Minister Shen stood up and spoke, telling everyone that I should die. As the rest of the race, you have long since had enough to bear, and you have banded together to kill or expel me and my supporters. The warriors who accepted Minister Shen's call to stand up to me possessed qualities such as loyalty, bravery, compassion, etc., and these people were 'altruists'. ”

"Wave after wave of extremists have been eliminated, and ethnic groups have gradually stabilized, become more competitive because of stability, and therefore better able to reproduce and thrive, which is the result of natural selection. The definition of morality has also been gradually fixed through the reproduction of altruists, and the emergence of rules and laws in human beings, from which the social contract is derived, is the group choice theory of the origin of morality. When Xing Conglian said this, he looked at everyone present and said solemnly, "But is all this really the inevitable result of natural selection?" ”

Without giving anyone present time to think, he asked directly and simply: "Is there a dangerous moment in the process of human evolution in which the forces of "egoism" that I represent and the forces of "altruists" that you represent have formed a delicate balance? This is an existential moment, and when either side gains the upper hand, two very different situations will emerge in society. If you win, society becomes what you want it to be; And once I succeed, the offspring that carry my genes will lead the entire human society to the abyss I desire. ”

"This is the balance on the tightrope, it is the real great moment that determines the future of human society," he said with his hands in his pockets. ”

……

A remote control was put down in front of Lin Chen.

Lin Chen picked up the remote control, nodded to the police officer in thanks, and asked Shen Lian, "So, what is his purpose?" ”

He asked, then replied: "I don't think his purpose is to create this moment immediately, he thinks more deeply, what he wants to do is to offer a great possibility for the recurrence of this moment in the future." ”

"He wants to plant a seed of selfishness in the hearts of all."

"This seed is planted in the hearts of the choosers, in the abstentions, and even in the minds of the observers, and the seed is reproduced and multiplied through human reproduction from generation to generation, and creates a possibility for the future of all extreme egoists like you who are not tolerated by society."

"One day, the egoist race will eventually grow to a terrifying size, and at that moment, humanity will once again usher in the game of balance on the tightrope and be given another chance to choose its fate."

"That's what he's really going to do." 166 Reading Network