Chapter 149: The Rule of Man
Think about it, people can pursue infinitely high spiritual pursuits, but the mortal body still can't escape the hunger and thirst of three meals a day.
As long as you exist in this worldly world, then you will not be able to get rid of these problems for a day.
"There's an old saying that you eat to live, but there's more to living than just eating.
Firewood, rice, oil and salt are very important, and the various desires in the heart are indeed very tormenting, but there is an old saying that is also very good, Liangtian Qian can not eat three meals, and the vast building is not more than one couch, people's desires seem to be very large, but what they need is very limited.
The right amount of satisfying desires is the style of life, excessive indulgence, but in vain to hurt the body.
Rich material life is indeed the foundation of exquisite life, but a flower and a garden of 10,000 acres are just a feast of color and fragrance. ”
In life, everything needs to be moderate, Bai Qi's argument lies in the importance of material foundation, and the fifth positive argument lies in the moderation of demand, which seems to stabilize him again.
But what frightened the Fifth Zheng again was that in the face of such another deconstruction, Bai Qi's response was still an indescribable smile.
"I have to admit that your ideological realm is indeed quite high, your own sense of morality is very strong, and you dare to admit your desires, but you will not let your desires degenerate into a man-devouring beast.
But people are social animals after all, you can think about it, not necessarily other people can also think about it, you can live very freely, it does not necessarily mean that other people are also free and easy.
Take the group of old ladies dancing square dances as an example, they may not fight or fight for the rest of their lives, and in their old age, the daily pleasure is to dance square dances and entertain them to spend their few remaining last days.
However, their self-satisfaction is not understood by the other residents of the community, and their entertainment life is defined as noise nuisance, and it is defined as an immoral behavior.
The cheap self-amusement of the square dancing old lady, this kind of low-desire contentment, put in the senses of others, is the scum of life who is disrespectful to the old and has no public morality.
But if these old ladies can spend a little money and find a professional place, then their self-entertainment will not arouse anyone's disgust.
But this kind of professional and exquisite life costs money, and ordinary people can't afford it, so they can only become the object of spurning by others.
Therefore, what you think of as a low-desire life is not necessarily a high-moral thing, this world is always a world of choice, and whoever chooses more will be able to obtain more happiness.
But in order to obtain such an option, the necessary economic foundation is indispensable. ”
Bai Qi took a dish that had just been served with chopsticks, and looked at the fifth positive with a flat look, as if he was really chatting.
However, Bai Qi's assertion caused the defense line that had just been established by the Fifth Zheng to completely collapse and collapse.
As Bai Qi said, people are group animals after all, and your self-satisfaction may be seen by others as a moral imbalance.
In this interpretation, the boundary between the two seems to be blurred.
Could it be that none of the topics carefully selected by the Fifth Righteous to respond to could escape Bai Qi's palm? Such a level of suppression also made the nerves of the Fifth Positive tense again.
I thought I could try out something extra in a seemingly ordinary conversation, but I didn't expect it to end up falling into the rhythm of Bai Qi's conversation.
What's more, the current topic may also be related to the relationship between him and Bai Xue, which really makes the fifth Zheng feel extremely entangled!
"If the custom of respecting the old and loving the young is upheld, then the behavior of the old lady dancing in the square must be accommodated; If the basic literacy of public places is adhered to, then the noisy behavior of square dancing old ladies should be stopped.
If the boundaries of morality are infinitely extended, or even produce some actions similar to moral kidnapping, then there will inevitably be serious conflicts at the boundaries of various moral types.
Morality is transcendent to a certain extent, but in some ways it is also to allow some special groups to obtain certain additional conveniences, but if the power derived from this convenience is infinitely extended, so that it eventually leads to the evil effect of power expansion, then such behavior itself is an immoral act.
Morality is not an iron law, it is just a public flaunting and constraint of moderation.
As a social animal, living in a narrow common area, how to make effective trade-offs and learn to balance the restlessness of various instinctual desires is the key.
Square dancing is indeed a cheap form of self-entertainment, and it does cost a lot of money to charter a venue in a professional area, but square dancing with wireless headphones seems to be a good option.
There are countless choices to satisfy one's desires, and the process of these choices is a manifestation of life attitude.
Respecting each other's choices and being able to make better choices is perhaps the most important of all. ”
In the face of Bai Qi's pressing step by step, the fifth positive could only use his best skills to answer as comprehensively as possible in a limited space, but fortunately, he was still agile and did not lose his level.
For Bai Qi at this time, he didn't expect that the fifth positive talent would be so agile, analyzing it step by step, deconstructing his narrow theory, and also showing the strength of his heart step by step.
For Bai Xue, who was watching, the discussion process between the fifth positive and her brother made her gradually see the fifth positive's heart, and a powerful soul was slowly forming in front of her, highlighting a more unique charm.
"I have to admit that you do know a lot, and you can understand the importance of self-denial.
But as you said, there are always a few people in the world who can understand moral righteousness, and the rest are basically some sentient beings who are trapped in life.
Among these beings, there are ordinary people, there are bad people, there are strange people, there are strange people, there are perverse people, there are narrow-minded people, and so on.
The world is a huge dye vat, in which all the hues blend with each other, giving birth to countless different colors of personality, and there are always some of them that can hit your soft underbelly and make you out of anger at a certain moment.
For example, just a few old ladies who like to dance square dances can strain the neighborhood in the whole community, and a lot of discordant scolding wars occur from time to time, and now one of them has disappeared for several days without explanation.
Based on the previous bad premise, it is difficult for you to guess benignly, this old lady is still alive, and ordinary people will only instinctively guess that this old lady is actually dead in a dark corner somewhere, and is decaying and rotting little by little.
A small square dance can lead to such a huge murder, let alone other things about real conflicts of interest.
In the final analysis, the essential contradiction between people is nothing more than murder to pay for life, debt repayment, and it seems that only half of the disputes about money are involved, but the reason why most of the murders happen, when small conflicts are accumulated at the beginning, is often because of money.
For example, the old lady who disappeared this time, if she could charter a car to find a remote place to dance, she would not have too many conflicts with people, and even if she bought a wireless headset in a group, it would not eventually cause such a tragedy.
All your judgments are filled with a great deal of moral discourse, and I think you should also be very familiar with the very rational thing of the law.
Some people say that morality is self-discipline and law is other law, but I think that whether it is morality or law, they are just a set of rules.
It is human beings who abide by these two sets of rules, and it is also human beings who implement these two sets of rules, in fact, to be more abstract, there is no morality and law in this world, but they are just mutual control and disputes between people.
For example, the old lady and the residents of the community who are in conflict with each other, they seem to be bound by morality and governed by the laws of the country, but those who disturb the people are still disturbing the people, and those who are angry are still angry and counterattacking.
If the problem of square dancing is not solved, someone will eventually come forward and let an old lady disappear.
This kind of action, continuing to abstract a point, is that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded, it is not that it will not be repaid, but the time has not yet come.
When a disturber commits an immoral act, at first someone will only come to argue with her, which will affect her mood for square dancing, but when she does not repent and continues to do her own thing, the evil in her body will continue to accumulate indefinitely, and finally when the retribution comes, her life will be ruthlessly deprived.
These seemingly self-contained karmas, if you say that it is the ultimate result of human rule, then it is like this, and if you say that it is the inevitable result of the most basic economic trade-offs, then it is like this.
Also, you seem to like quoting some well-established truths, so I'll summarize it with an old saying.
All morals and laws are based on the economy, but because you are in the prosperous world, you do not have a real and objective feeling of hunger and poverty, so you will feel that as long as you respect each other, it seems that anything can be solved.
It's still those few words, you haven't been poor, you don't know what a full meal is all about, and you don't know that people can kill another person for a steamed bun.
This is still the case for steamed buns, not to mention more magnificent luxuries.
Hunger and greed are always the root of human nature, and if you don't face them head-on, but always try to prevaricate and beautify them with some bells and whistles of moral explanations, then you will never understand what the essence of life is. ”
It seems that in order to show off his skills, and it seems that he wants to use what the Fifth Zheng is best at to defeat it completely, Bai Qi's discussion not only borrowed the routines that the Fifth Zheng is very familiar with, but even nested such routines in his own arguments.
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