So Chateau concluded: "So we can think that, unless it is the kind of society that is still struggling on the edge of survival, maintaining slavery will always do more harm than good."
"I understand!" Niya suddenly exclaimed.
"What do you unserstand?"
Under Xia Duo's expectant gaze, Niya said an answer that surprised him, "I understand the reason why you chose this path from the perspective of the development of the times, because you think this path is superior to Any other path that can be discovered in the past and even in the future!”
"Continue-" Sha Duo motioned for Niya to continue.
Encouraged by Sha Duo, Niya continued the thought experiment just now and continued:
“Slaves have no freedom, let alone respect, so give them freedom, give them respect, and protect all their rights, so that they are no lower than anyone else in the same society!
"In this case, they have only one purpose of living - to live better for themselves, and this is just the minimum, he can do whatever he wants.
"This kind of action driven by the heart is undoubtedly the most effective."
But in the end, Niya hesitated, "But in such a society where everyone is equal and everyone can do whatever they want, in what direction should it develop? Everyone has their own ideas, How do you reconcile those different ideas?”
"What you are worried about is actually a decision-making issue. In my opinion, this is not a difficult problem. It can be summed up in two principles - listen to whoever has reason and obey the majority."
Of course, it is not easy to implement the two principles specifically, as they involve the most fundamental system design of a society and subsequent maintenance and improvement.
There is a saying in Xia Duo's hometown that "it is easy to start a business, but difficult to keep a business", which can roughly describe this process. In fact, starting a business itself is not easy, and keeping a business is even more difficult.
Regarding Xia Duo's answer, Niya thought for a moment, nodded, and then raised doubts again: "But is such a society really possible? Without any oppression? Everyone is equal?"
"Of course it is difficult, but I believe it is possible to achieve. And as an ideal, or a long-term goal, if it can be achieved easily, is it still an ideal or long-term goal?"
To be honest, if Xia Duo only had a lifespan of a hundred years, he would never choose this path that would almost go against the whole world. Especially in the magical world where individual strength can easily widen a huge gap, such a path is almost impossible. possible.
But he has a long enough lifespan, which makes him determined to see the higher-level scenery! This is actually the selfish reason he just explained to Niya.
But his selfishness does not violate morality or go against the development trend of the times. He believes that there is nothing wrong with having such selfishness.
Hearing Xia Duo's last answer, Niya suddenly felt unreal. It turned out that Xia Duo was not absolutely confident about that kind of future!
At this moment, she understood her truest thoughts - Xia Duo had been making rapid progress, which made it difficult for her to keep up and worry about gains and losses.
But if there is a goal that even Xia Duo is not sure can be achieved but is great enough and long-term enough, then it doesn't matter between the two of them. Faced with such a goal, the two of them will always move forward hand in hand.
Moreover, this goal is not entirely based on faith, but is also based on rational choices to a certain extent. After thinking about this issue, Niya felt much more relaxed.
She originally wanted to say something, but suddenly she didn't want to say anything anymore. There was still a long way to go, and she wanted to slowly understand and experience it by herself.
At this moment, Niya even felt that children were not that important. Of course, they still had to have them, so that they could at least have one more future companion.
Seeing that Niya seemed to have understood something, Xia Duo said nothing more. In fact, he still had something to say, that is - if he is not pursuing the ultimate goal, then just liberating slaves or even improving people's treatment does not actually mean that As the pressure decreases, it may become even worse.
After all, if you think about it from another angle, if there is no profit, which slave owner is willing to free the slaves who are completely under his control?
The explanation based on the hometown theory is that as long as it is not communism, exploitation still exists, and the more developed the productive forces are, the more thorough the exploitation will be.
The so-called "more thorough" means that the ratio of personal income to output will become lower and lower as productivity increases!
The reason for not saying this is mainly because Xia Duo is worried that Niya will be tempted by short-term (relative to the ultimate goal) personal interests and go astray.
After all, the ultimate goal seems so far away that even Xia Duo himself is inevitably tempted, so what he wants is to use a little bit of visible progress in future practice to strengthen Niya's confidence in the ultimate goal.
Of course, he himself is the same. He may encounter something in the future that will cause his heart to be broken, but at least so far, he still believes that the goal is superior and is possible to achieve.
As long as there are no too outrageous changes in the future, he believes that he will be able to continue on this path unswervingly.
Of course, that path is not just about treating people preferentially. It would be too narrow-minded to think so. The essence is a more efficient way of organizing and utilizing resources, regardless of good or evil, or based on the conditions on the earth. Cognition, the cost of using goodness is lower.
But in the magical world, that is not necessarily the case. At least Shado himself has thought of more than one way to completely control life from body to soul. Although he is not sure what the upper limit of control by such means is, there are always more A clever method.
Even on Earth, there are similar means, and even the cost may not be that high. It is difficult to achieve just based on the technical level when Xia Duo left, but it is theoretically possible. As long as it can be done, the cost is actually not Problem.
It's just that Xia Duo is not a person full of desires, and he also agrees with morality and knows how to restrain himself, so he chooses the good side and respects each individual's self, rather than ignoring each individual's self and putting his own To impose one's will on others.
Of course, respecting others does not mean not interfering or affecting others at all. Good ideas need to be shared. If you completely ignore others, or deliberately maintain your "invisible" state, what is the difference between the world and the world without him?
Whether he influences or interferes is not the key. As long as he exists in this world, he will affect the outside world all the time. The key is -
Whether to give others the power to choose.
To a certain extent, this is also the simplest way to distinguish orthodox religions from cults. It depends on whether they are forced to join the religion. As long as they are forced to join the religion, no matter how nice the teachings are, they are all cults.
(End of chapter)
