After listening to Ye Feng's narration, everyone was stunned.
Ren Xiaojin said: "Feng, in addition to getting back the land deed, you also saved the villagers of Yutao Village."
But Ye Feng said: "The trivial things I did are not considered salvation. They just let them die a year later. And the reason why some people are poor is not because of poverty itself, but because of other bad habits, such as Gambling, laziness, squandering, etc., many times some poor people do not deserve sympathy."
Xiruo said: "So you didn't give them money."
Ye Feng said: "No, I also gave it, but I treated everyone equally in terms of quantity, and in a flexible way. For example, I met a husband who used the family's money to gamble, while his wife and children were starving at home. I So he only gave the money to his wife and children, and told her not to tell her husband, and not to be discovered by her angry husband, otherwise, their wife and children would still die."
Suddenly Gu Ling'er said: "Ye Feng, why don't you just kill that husband, so that you can get away with it once and for all."
As soon as Gu Ling'er finished speaking, everyone was shocked, but they all understood her thoughts immediately.
Just listen to Gu Ling'er say: "The husband is gambling to get the living money of his wife and children, and gambling will lose nine times out of ten, and you will lose out of a hundred bets. Then the husband's behavior is basically equivalent to killing people. Patriarch, you Killing that husband is actually equivalent to saving someone else, don't you realize?"
Hearing this, Ye Feng just shook his head slowly and said: "Good things come from your heart, bad things come from your actions. Gambling and killing are naturally not good things, so you can only look at the behavior itself and not consider the factors of the heart. Gambling is gambling, and killing is... How can murder be equalized by the three words 'equivalent to'? How can the two be the same? This is wrong. You still made the subjective mistake of 'thinking about bad things'. 'Equivalent to' these three words make it clear. It is still an extremely subjective word, but this heart is not the heart of the person involved, but your own heart.
"If you use your heart to judge good and evil in everything, because you think the other person is evil in your heart, so you act to eliminate evil, and at the same time think you are good. Then you will go to an extreme, that is, in the name of justice Kill everyone in the world. This result may be extreme, but what you just said and thought is ultimately what it means.
"And Gu Ling'er, your mistake just now is precisely the limitation of Yangming's theory of mind. Yangming's theory of mind believes that 'there is nothing outside the heart, nothing outside the heart, and no reason outside the heart'. The distinction between good and evil in the heart is conscience, which is Use the conscience in your heart as the standard for judging the good and evil of external objects. This is true, but it does not apply to all situations, such as this moment. The three words "equivalent to" already explain everything.
"And more importantly, 'No one can say that their subjective judgment of good and evil is correct.' If you really think that you can judge good and evil by yourself, then this is infinitely close to arrogance.
"This is why Mr. Yangming proposed that "the absence of good or evil thoughts in the heart is the supreme good." But in fact, this statement just avoids answering the more important question directly. Because "no good and no evil" is the standard for judging good and evil. , that is, there is no standard, or the "theory of good nature" is used as the standard, but that basically means saying nothing.
"So the limitation of Yangming's theory of mind is that it cannot combine the subjective and the objective. It is only a subjective judgment without verification based on objective reality. It is too easy to go to extremes by just using the mind to judge good and evil. Perhaps a very small number of people Those saints had a very high realm and could control it, but 99.99% of ordinary people did not have such a high realm. Therefore, Confucius was a gentleman, but the Confucian disciples who studied Confucius' thoughts in later generations were all fucking hypocrites.
"I believe that all lives are equal. Don't say that the husband, wife, son, and family are serfs from another college. Even if they are from our Yangming Academy, even I, the dean, am not qualified to do it in the name of any righteousness. Deprive others of their lives. Because once you kill someone, you are not qualified to call yourself a good person, nor are you qualified to be a good person, let alone a saint. At most, you can be a chaotic person. Since ancient times, in official historical records, saints have never been This is the reason for the murder record,
"But I am not a saint, and I don't want to be a saint. When I think that person deserves to die, I will kill someone, so I am not qualified to say that I am a good person. However, the husband is not worthy of death, and I want to express this to the wife. I have confirmed it. So it is extremely dangerous to make a judgment without investigation."
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The narrator said: Ye Feng's heresy is a combination of subjectivity and objectivity. "Good things depend on the heart, bad things depend on the behavior." Not to mention, even if it is Ye Feng's "see-through" magical skill, even if Ye Feng sees through all the information, he still There is no subjective judgment as the sole criterion. Ye Feng tries his best to get some objective feedback to verify his subjective judgment. Ye Feng saw through the previous killers, but the other party attacked Ye Feng directly and was not willing to give Ye Feng a chance to be objective. So can this be regarded as Ye Feng's fault?
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At this time, Qingni asked Ye Feng: "Feng, how did you deal with that family?"
Ye Feng said: "I severely injured that husband. He will probably have to lie down for a year."
"..." Everyone was speechless. Where is this nonsense?
I heard Ye Feng continue: "Although that husband's behavior was not worthy of death, it was enough to cause a passer-by to be beaten up by a passerby who suddenly had a sense of justice. So I did it.
"Generally speaking, the wife is also responsible for the situation that the family has fallen into. As the wife, she did not stand up to accuse her husband of his fault, but resignedly tolerated it. This behavior was completely expecting others to save her, and she did not save herself at all. Such weak people are not worthy of being rescued, but I am still willing to give them a chance. So after I injured my husband, I gave him extra money for medical expenses, which was enough for the husband to recover from his injury within a year. While the wife was taking care of her husband Within one year, if the husband cannot wake up, if he does not know how to quit gambling for the sake of his wife and children, and if the wife cannot change her cowardice, then the fate of the family will be ruined after one year. I will not do it again. Give a second chance. A person who doesn’t know how to save himself is not worthy of being rescued.”
As he spoke, Ye Feng looked at the crowd and said: "We cannot have the heart of a holy mother for the weak who do not know how to save themselves and only wait for others to rescue them. Because there are too many such weak people, they are like blood-sucking leeches. , one or two is okay, but once there are too many, even the invincible heroes will be sucked dry by them until they die. And they will just continue to stay in the muddy water, waiting for the next hero to appear, and continue Suck blood.”
