Chapter 706: Changing the Mindset [Second Update]
Lucis was stunned, Dudian's words had a great impact on him, and although it sounded a bit like a fallacy, he could not find a mistake in it that could be refuted.
After a long while, he came to his senses and immediately retorted: "You say this because you are now the ruler of the Outer Wall District, and you naturally praise 'hypocrisy' by playing with power. β
Du Dian shook his head and said: "I'm not complimenting, it's just my personal opinion, although I have said so much, I don't think hypocrisy is better than a real villain, in fact, for me, these two kinds of people, I look at them the same, and I don't think which one is more annoying, because the hypocritical person is in front of me, I have the discerning eye to see through his hypocrisy, and the real villain is in front of me, I have the strength to suppress his evil!" β
Lucis said coldly: "No matter which of these two kinds of people, they are moth-like existences, according to you, hypocritical people are better than real villains, and they have better security in the giant wall, at least people know how to maintain their faces, and they will not kill people on the street on the spot, or do things out of line, but this kind of person plays a yin knife behind his back, greedy and hidden, if he is an official, he will breed corruption, if he is a friend, he will stick a knife in his back, he is simply a beast in human skin!" β
"That's right, so you need a pair of discerning eyes." Du Dian said indifferently: "If you don't know people properly, but blame others for deceiving you, then you can only say that you deserve it!" β
Lucis shook his head and said, "Who can be as wary of anyone as you are?" Besides, the human heart is complex, and it is difficult to see a person clearly, especially for a kind person. β
"That's not called kindness, that's just too lazy to use your brain." Du Dian said: "The world is fair, if you use a little less brain, you will suffer a little more." β
Lucis shook his head slightly, and said: "If all people know how to restrain their own nature, and do not harm others, neither true villains nor hypocrites, and are as pure as newborn babies, then it is the best thing and the most ideal state of life." β
Dudian glanced at him, feeling that he was about to tell the difference between hypocrisy and true gentleman. Speaking of which, he had to thank the ancestors of China for the treasures left behind, and half of the hypocrisy he talked about was deliberately ignoring the part of "etiquette" to confuse this person. As he said above, everyone is hypocritical, and the hypocrisy that most people hate is the use of hypocrisy to do evil.
And the other kind of positive, well-intentioned hypocrisy is called li!
There is a world of difference between the two, to put it simply, the hypocrisy of kindness is the main thing to learn in the process of "being a man".
"Neither is deserved, nor can one be a pure person." Dudian opened his mouth and refuted Lucis's words, saying: "Purity means blankness, a baby cannot be regarded as a 'person', if you live for many years, and in turn yearn to be a baby, what is the difference between living in vain and living in vain?" β
Lucis didn't expect Dudian to even want to refute such a thing, and immediately said: "A painter once told me that people are a blank sheet of paper from birth, and the years have smeared paint on it, so people will be born, old, sick and die, because this paper has been smeared all over, and even the painting is rotten, and it can no longer be painted, so it has to die!" And death is the greatest punishment God gives to life, it is a judgment, and it is also a warning! β
"If people could live a little easier and kinder, this painting of life would not be so bad and ugly."
Du Dian said indifferently: "If birth, old age, sickness and death are God's punishment, then survival is the struggle between man and God!" According to your words, if you don't have so many distractions and live a little easier, the blank paper of your life won't be so quickly painted? In my opinion, on the contrary, you are just living very casually, accepting your fate, leaving your life to God to decide, and let you live as long as you want. β
"And those who think a lot, who smear a lot, just want to live better, live more wonderfully, they are fighting, and you are resigned to your fate, hanging your head under the blade of God, and letting him cut it off."
Lucis was stunned, he didn't expect Dudian to even find a refutation of this kind of thing, he couldn't help but say, "Do you think kindness is also a mistake?!" β
If Dudian admits it, he will find it ridiculous, because this is the root of his belief and cannot be shaken, and it also means that what Dudian said before can be ignored and regarded as crooked.
Instead of answering his words, Dudian asked, "What is kindness?" β
Lucis was stunned again by this question, but quickly reacted and immediately said: "I think three-year-old children know this question." β
"What a three-year-old knows, who told him?" Dudian asked again.
Luhis's face changed slightly, realizing that this question was not so simple to answer, and he thought quickly in his heart before he said: "What our monastery has always done is biased towards good, of course, although we have also done bad things and killed people, but you must know that the monastery is a whole, there are countless people, and the quality will naturally be uneven, but the purpose of our monastery is good, this is indisputable, even I have to admit it." β
He said it very pertinently and firmly.
Dudian nodded, in this respect, he was indeed much better than the people in other monasteries, at least he would not blindly say some great truths that he might not necessarily believe, nor would he blindly maintain the monastery, but this could not win his favor, so as to lower his vigilance.
"Kindness is made by morality." Dudian continued: "Goodness as defined above morality is goodness, so who will make morality? What is the role of morality? Let me tell you, the role of morality is to manage the places that the fist cannot control, every king can use the sword to subdue every person in the territory, nor can he suppress every evildoer, then the role of morality is also obvious, it is for the maintenance of human development. β
"Everyone is good, the world is peaceful, peace can be well managed, and it can also be well developed, but long-term peace will lead to comfort and decline, so war is necessary, although everyone hates war, but these hated people are just people who cannot profit from war, because war will bring them death, if war only brings the death of others, but brings them benefits, benefits, then there will be no hatred."
Du Dian said: "And not everyone will abide by moral constraints, the ancients said that every day to take morality as a dogma and reflect on one's own mistakes, this is like a person walking crookedly, needs a direction." However, this direction is set by others, not by you, and the path you take is also the path that others want you to take, because everyone walks like this, and there are rules and rules, which will be good for everyone. β
"And those who like to walk around follow their own nature and run blindly, so they bump into others and hurt the law-abiding citizens."
Luhis's face was ugly, Dudian did not answer his question, but analyzed the question more deeply, and in turn let him judge right and wrong, he felt a pressure, although his conviction was still unshaken, but he had to admit that the young man in front of him was the most terrible person he had met in more than twenty years, and he was completely incomparable to the other dull missionaries in the monastery who could only recite the Bible.
He had always felt that he had seen enough of the world to defend against the missionaries, but Dudian's words had raised his thinking to a different angleβthe perspective of a ruler.
Everyone will look at problems from the perspective of their own habitual thinking, a suspicious person will always have a skeptical attitude, a businessman will always look at problems from the perspective of interests, and he used to look at problems from the perspective of good and evil, but Du Dian brought him thinking from the perspective of survival and destruction of all mankind!
It is no longer just profit, good and evil, but the trend of human activity as a whole.
Looking at the problem from this angle, he suddenly felt that talking about good and evil was a bit naΓ―ve and ridiculous, but the interests were more practical, but the level of interests was too narrow and superficial. 7410