"I'll be cruel: it's a foregone conclusion, and it's useless for you to regret it now. Those who died are dead, and I'm not going to help you make excuses to justify this. ”

Rika Fujimaru, wrapped in a blanket, said. Coetzes, who was sitting next to her, seemed unrefreshed and looked a little absent-minded.

But he was clearly listening, as he was quick to respond to the remark: "I don't think I need this." They have all committed unspeakable crimes in their own lives, and from an objective point of view, I don't think they deserve to live. ”

"But what criteria are you using for a trial?" Fujimaru Rika, who could see at a glance that this person was hard-mouthed, pursued mercilessly, "If you yourself agree with this standard for conducting judgments, then why do you obviously regret it now?" If you think they really deserve to die, why do you call it 'messed up'? ”

After the intensity of the psionic phenomenon weakened, the temperature quickly rose up due to the constant temperature system inside the Galatan Star Castle. Rika Fujimaru felt that she had just warmed up the blanket, and the temperature around her was quickly becoming pleasant.

Coetzes opened his mouth, clearly trying to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end. It's too much for him to talk about, but if he doesn't talk about it, it's like a fish in his throat. If you let him judge for himself, it may seem very weak to confide in someone credible, but isn't it another act of cowardice to pretend that the problem doesn't exist?

He fought with himself for more than two seconds, which was almost a century for the speed of the original body's thinking. Rika Fujimaru looked up at him wrapped in a blanket like that, making it clear that if Coz didn't respond even the slightest, she wouldn't let the conversation go any further.

So, a century after a century had passed, Koetz spoke with great difficulty—not directly about the question he wanted to ask, but in a way that took a detour: "Haven't you ever had a similar problem before?" For example, you have to kill people you don't really want to kill...... Something like that? ”

Fujimaru Rika blinked, and replied almost without pause: "Of course there is, after all, I rarely 'want to kill'." ”

She said it with ease, but in fact, she was also instinctively trying to hide a lot of heavier things under the blurred emphasis. Her first reaction to the topic was "don't let the atmosphere get too serious", but she thought about it again and realized that she seemed to be pushing forward with a topic that "should be very serious".

Realizing this, Rika Fujimaru had to take another second to reorganize her thoughts, and then she spoke, deciding to add some details to her previous fluttering answer: "It's like the train problem, it's an ethical problem that was so famous in our time that it was played badly. Basically, 'Five innocent people are tied to the tram tracks, and a runaway tram is coming towards them and is about to run them over to death.' Standing on the side of the road, you can choose to trigger the tram and let the tram go to another track, but if you do that, the staff who are working on the other track will die. Such a premise, and then ask whether or not to trigger the gate here. As long as I'm still doing something like 'saving the world', then I can't help but make that choice. ”

"And what will you choose?" The topic itself had deviated from Coetze's original expectations, which he had to bear if he chose to side-to-side instead of saying it, but at the same time, he did wonder what Rikka Fujimaru would do with the question in her own mouth, "We all know that of course you will choose the option that does less damage. But how do you convince yourself that this is the right thing to do in such a lose-lose situation? ”

"Don't ask such fruitless questions. There is no such thing as a perfectly correct 'moral behavior' in this dilemma. "As long as you make a choice, it means that someone will die because of your choice - including choosing 'inaction' at the edge of the barrier." With this in mind, the remaining problem is solved: since you will become a sinner no matter what you do, at least from a utilitarian point of view, choose the option that suffers the least damage. ”

It's a question that Coetzes hadn't thought about before. In his concept, giving up one person and saving five people is obviously a more efficient, reasonable, and therefore more correct choice. When he asked the question, it was clear that Rika Fujimaru, who attached great importance to the "life of the individual", would also choose to give up the minority in order to save the majority, but he did not expect that although the other party made the choice he thought, he denied the correctness of this act.

"This may be a bit difficult for you to understand, after all, you were born as a 'judge'." Rika Fujimaru commented, "While the Emperor has given you the knowledge and judgment necessary to execute the trial, he has also given you the corresponding powers. If you are to be seen exercising this power as a whole court rather than as a single individual, then your 'judgment' itself is undoubtedly justified by the endorsement of the vast polity of the Empire. Of course, this is just a conceptual abstract metaphor, and it doesn't say anything in practice, and you are too utilitarian in the process of implementation...... Ahhh ”

Rika Fujimaru let herself burrow into the blanket between anger and shame.

This was a question she had pondered in her vision, and she was serious about trying to find out the crux of Conrad Coetze's dereliction of duty as a "judge". But at that time, she had the ability to think at the original level, and she did find a conclusion that she felt was correct, and if she were to try to deduce it in an orderly manner, then this complex problem that mixed ethics, law, philosophy, and even psychology and other social science disciplines would still be a little too difficult to sort out with her mediocre mind.

"All in all, I would like to express the conclusion that it is completely impossible to accomplish all your goals cleanly!" The girl's voice came muffled from the blanket, "Do you think that the title of 'sin drinker' is just 'sipping the sins of others'?" And of course, all the crimes I will commit for my own purpose! Imprudent thinking, reckless actions, unnecessary casualties, of course, these things that arise from my orders must be borne by myself! If it's you, of course too! ”

“…… But it's so hard. "For the first time, I found that it was so difficult to face the outcome of my own trial. ”

"The right thing is often harder." Rika Fujimaru re-emerged from the blanket, "I'm glad you didn't choose the 'easier' option without saying a word, but instead complained to me about how hard it was. But I'll just remind you that you're the primordial, and whether you want to or not, you're the genetic father of the five thousand or four hundred Midnight Lords that are currently left. It is your responsibility to continue to guide them, to teach them the right way to behave in the world, to give them an option to become better—at least if I were in your place, I would. ”

"But what about the heirs who died through my fault?" Coates finally mustered up the courage to ask the sentence that barely bothered to the question he wanted to ask, "What should I do with them?" ”

"Remember them. Remember all this, and then take it as a warning not to create similar latecomers. Rika Fujimaru's response was cold, "It's up to you whether you want to honor them or spurn them, but remember, they're dead, and you have other, living heirs." The past, for better or worse, is a foregone conclusion, the dead are gone, and only the living can interact with the world. They may be the karma you should bear, but they should not be a shackle to keep you going. ”

This is quite a merciless and therefore quite straightforward answer. Coetzes apparently accepted the statement, but he continued to hesitate about something. Fujimaru Rika was willing to wait for him to gather enough courage to appeal to the question that he had been refusing to ask, but unfortunately, the people outside the door were unwilling.

In the moment when Conrad Coetzes was about to speak again, the door finally opened with the heavy rumble of mechanical operation, and succeeded in choking back the sentence that had been brought to his lips. Robert Kiliman, who had led the man through the door in a menacing manner, glanced at the furnishings and made sure that Rika Fujimaru was fine, and then began to reprimand Coz—and then, of course, caused some jumps, including physical altercations.

All in all, none of these things are so important in comparison. Importantly, Conrad Coetze finally failed to ask the question he wanted to ask:

What the hell is he going to do with the unconditional love that his children are projecting at him?

Miwoo (six o'clock)

It's still hard written, in fact, what Gollum wants to express to Coz means "Receiving the dirt of the country, it is the master of the society; The country is ominous, and it is the king of the world. "I know I'm very ......

At this time, I began to hate why I was Japanese, which prevented me from quoting the Tao Te Ching (crying).

(End of chapter)