The narrator said: Ye Yu, I was confused by you again. There must be something else you didn't say later.
Ye Yu said: Indeed, the space is limited after all. For example, we often say "the most important thing for people is life".
The narrator said: Yes, isn’t this something you have always stood for?
Ye Yu said: It is true that the most important thing for people is life, but narrator, don’t you think that many people have some problems with their understanding of this sentence?
The narrator said: What do you mean?
Ye Yu said: For example, the most valuable thing you have is your iPhone. So this sentence shows that the Apple phone belongs to you and it is very valuable, but can you say that all the value of you is equal to the value of the Apple phone?
The narrator said: Of course not.
Ye Yu said: That's natural. You not only own a mobile phone, but you also own clothes, shoes, watches and other things. If you want to calculate all the value of you as a person, you must add all these. The same goes for the sentence "The most important thing for a person is life." Life belongs to everyone, and life is the most important. However, the importance of you is not determined solely by the importance of life. . In addition to having life, you also have faith, honor, courage, friendship, honesty, love, knowledge, innocence and so on. Only when these things are taken into account can you realize the importance or value of a complete person.
This misunderstanding leads to the unsolvability of the trolley problem. People subconsciously replace the importance of life with the importance of the whole person, so that the value of life is replaced by the value of the whole person. This leads to the search for various other added values for life, such as quantity, wealth, status, etc., in order to increase the value of life and highlight the value of people, but this is wrong. Therefore, the direction of thinking about the problem is wrong from the beginning, and what reasonable conclusion can you expect to draw. We made this mistake when we talked about "subordinating the minority to the majority" before, which led to that absurd conclusion. Because it ignores that the value of life is not the entire value of human beings. And as I said before, when it comes to life alone, they are equally important and equally unimportant. Therefore, relying on the importance of life to solve the trolley problem is simply nonsense.
The narrator was speechless.
Ye Yu said: What's wrong with you?
The narrator said: It's nothing, I just want to hear you continue talking.
Ye Yu smiled and said: If you explain it from the perspective of a mathematical model, maybe you can understand it better. If the true total value of a person is divided from a third-party objective perspective, let's take it as 100 points, then life accounts for at least 90 points, so life is the most important. The other qualities add up to 10 points. It stands to reason that a quality of only 10 points in total cannot be more important than a life of 90 points. But, remember what I said before? The value of an item is determined by its owner's perceived value. Most of us think that our 90 points must be more important than those 10 points, so most of us are selfish, mediocre, and ordinary. There is nothing shameful about this, we are human after all.
But there is still a group of people who deserve our remembering and respect. Due to space limitations, I will only cite one aspect.
Since ancient times, China has seen many heroes who have defended their homeland and country over the course of thousands of years.
Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty expelled the Xiongnu and sealed the wolf as a vassal. The world praised him as the "Champion Marquis"! Defend the Han Dynasty and make the Xiongnu frightened!
Everyone should know about Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty! His fame will last forever! "Manjianghong" has been passed down through the ages! The foreign Khitans were driven north and were about to cross the Yellow River to regain the Central Plains. Unfortunately, they were killed by the treacherous minister Qin Hui and died in Fengbo Pavilion. It makes people sigh.
Ran Min, this national ruthless man in the dark age of chaos in China, the first thing he did after ascending to the throne and founding the country was to issue the famous "Kill the Hu Order". After issuing the order, Ran Min personally took the lead and carried out the beggar army. With help, the barbarians were driven out for a time, and the notorious Jie tribe was even exterminated. The Central Plains region ushered in a brief period of peace and reshaped the backbone of the Han people.
Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, once wrote to Hao Hao when he was sixteen, "I don't want to be granted the title of marquis, but I hope the sea will be peaceful." Expelled Japanese pirates, protected the territory and the people, and protected the integrity of the territory. He won praise from the people at that time and even later generations.
These are all representatives of famous generals in history, and of course there are many more. Even if I devote millions of words, it would be difficult to describe all the heroic figures who protected our country and our country in the history of China.
Let’s not mention it in modern times. The stable and happy life we have today is the result of those revolutionary martyrs who shed their lives and blood. They defended their home and country, were not afraid of death, and used their flesh and blood to create the peaceful, stable and prosperous society we have today. They are the true backbone of our Chinese nation, and they deserve to be remembered forever by all of us who are still alive today. and singing praises. No matter what kind of flattering words you use to praise them, it is not too much, not even one ten thousandth of it.
Due to the strict review of online articles, it is impossible to describe it in detail here, but I express this meaning to you, and you just know it.
The above-mentioned people regard 10 points of the person's total value, the belief and glory of protecting the home and country, as more important than the 90 points of life. He is even willing to give his life for it.
We have said before that a person can decide the way of his own death, which is a glorious moment to prove that life belongs to him, and to be brave in death for the faith and glory of the country and people will undoubtedly make the glory of life more dazzling.
And the things in these 10 points are exactly the things that can sublimate the value of life, and even the value of the whole person. The value of life may not be comparable, but the value of the whole person can be, and the key depends on what is within 10 points, and those 10 points are what Ye Feng values and shows the core of human pride and dignity. That is something far more important than 90 points of life.
But not everyone can reach the point where 10 points is greater than 90 points. But it is precisely because of this that the talents who have been able to achieve this level in the history of China are even more admirable and respected.
Of course, defending the family and the country is only part of the 10 points. There are many other aspects worthy of praise, but this aspect alone is enough to prove Ye Feng's answer to the "trolley problem" is excellent. Ye Feng's answer may be the answer we as "people" should choose. Even if that answer is not the most perfect, it must be the answer closest to perfection.
