Mutual love is good, not now.
This is already a heavy criticism.
If the person who said this was not Gu Dan, Qin Lisheng could argue with him ten thousand times on this point.
But as someone who knew Mo Qiu well before the establishment of the Mo family, and even watched the Mo family walk step by step to stand in front of Gu Dan, Qin Lisheng opened his mouth several times, but not a single sound came out.
"Universal love is certainly the highest vision, and Mohist has indeed achieved this, which is amazing!"
Gu Dan extended his thumb to express praise, "but"
A lot of things are really meant to be said after the turning point.
"People have closeness and distance, but there are a very small number of people who can love without distinction. It is almost impossible to promote and implement it and let the people do it voluntarily. That kind of difficulty is not the same as creating a great unity." There is no difference in this world."
Gu Dan still said.
The core of universal love is love without distinction, loving others is like loving yourself.
The highest level of the Mohist ideal is that everyone loves everyone, and everyone loves others as much as they love themselves. This is equivalent to countless personalities loving themselves. How can there be any more disputes in the world?
You love me, I love you, we are all as close as one family, regardless of gender, age, region, or country. It seems like you are sharing your share, so why don’t you gain more?
If everyone can do this, it is truly mutually beneficial.
But unfortunately, it can't be done.
It simply cannot be done.
The world is unfair, and there are indeed inherent differences between people. We must face this fact before we can come up with a solution.
To put it simply: If we are people in a village, each other’s parents have been neighbors for several generations. By your generation, the river water that has been used in the village will dry up, but the time for irrigation is also coming. Others use it to irrigate their own homes. Your family will have no use for the fields. If there is no use, the harvest will not be good. If the harvest is not good, people will starve to death.
What to do at this time?
Half for each person, divided equally?
Someone from both families will starve to death.
Provide everything for the family and share the food equally?
Still the same outcome.
Someone is always going to starve to death.
If we face this fact, how should we make a choice?
Draw lots, whoever is drawn will die directly?
Or should we use some other method to see who is the unlucky one?
impossible.
Universal love, universal love.
There must be a premise.
This premise is that one's own interests will not be greatly threatened.
The previous examples are only when facing life and death.
There are many situations like life and death, but there is also competition between people all the time, everywhere.
If you give in today and give in tomorrow, your family will not be able to survive.
It is impossible for everyone to have the enlightenment of a Mohist, and not everyone can be a Mohist.
Selflessness can be regarded as a high praise, which is enough to show some knowledge.
However, selfless people are usually not close to others, so why?
Everyone hates others using the back door, but they also like to allow themselves to enjoy this convenience.
This is the truth.
If you want to achieve universal love for everyone, the first condition is that material resources are absolutely satisfied, so that whether you have them or not, you will never have to face competition.
But if you can do this, what should you do with love?
Gu Dan said that mutual love is good, but not now.
Every bird understands the truth.
But now, where should the Mo family go?
The Ten Meanings of Mohism include: universal love, non-aggression, respecting the virtuous, respecting unity, heaven's will, understanding ghosts, frugal burial, frugal use, non-life, and non-happiness.
Among them, Tianzhi and Minggui were briefly used by Mo Qiu as the core concepts of Mohism.
The problem is that when these two things are put together, they are actually saying that the Mohists have mastered some principles of the movement of heaven and earth, and are persuading the world not to ask for immortality, but to just do their own thing well and not do bad things. Then the supreme ghosts and gods will naturally understand it. everything.
How can real people have the money to seek immortality?
There is no use at all!
Universal love and non-aggression are the core concepts pursued by Mohism today.
If universal love is not possible, then where can there be war around us? No use either!
The remaining concepts of advocating the virtuous, advocating unity, saving burials, saving money, not fate, not happiness. These concepts can only be regarded as a means of doing things, and there is no way to regard them as the core logic of Mohism's operation.
Nowadays, the core logic of Mohism hangs on the word "universal love". As long as universal love has not been achieved, Mohism can work infinitely for it.
To say that universal love cannot work is to say that Mohism cannot work.
If someone else had said this, they would have gone on to die.
However, the person who said this was Gu Dan.
Gu Dan has an irresistible relationship with Mo Qiu.
Gu Dan watched the Mo family approach step by step.
Gu Dan ended the four kingdoms' attack and brought chaos to this world.
In front of him, the Mo family had no reason to say that what he said was wrong.
The words of universal love are beautiful, but the difficulty is not just based on logic?
Rather than expecting the Mohists and Mohists to create a world where everyone loves everyone, it would be safer to expect Gu Dan to directly aspire to the top and bring peace and prosperity to the world.
Of course, saying that universal love is not possible does not mean that the Mohist school is useless.
On the contrary, the emergence of the Mohist family brought hope to the people of Dayue who were once trapped in the quagmire, and it really improved the folk customs to a great extent.
Because of the existence of Mohism, the people's requirements for morality and justice have been raised a lot. As a result, a group of heroes have emerged who can "bring benefit to the world and eliminate harm to the world." The ten righteousnesses of Mohism have been If you regard it as a model, all people will benefit.
However, just when all the people were benefiting, the Mohists finally began to face their own setbacks, unsolvable setbacks.
"You must know more about Lin Fan's death than I do. What did Lin Fan do wrong? He served the people, the country, and was worthy of the name of a Mohist. Of course we can say that her wife was ungrateful. , disaster caused by greed, but why does such a thing happen? "
Gu Dan sighed and said: "The Mo family is too harsh! Not to others, but to oneself, it is too harsh!"
That's right, besides universal love, there was another issue that was the key factor leading to Lin Fan's death.
The Mohists are too strict!
How strict is it?
The Imperial Master of the Xia Dynasty, a giant of the Mohist family, wore short brown clothes and wore straw sandals - the straw sandals were made by himself, adhering to the principle of "a day without pretense, a day without food"!
This is a giant of the Mohist family!
His status in the Xia Dynasty was theoretically second only to that of the Xia Emperor!
He is like this, and what kind of life does the Mohist live? Is there any need to think about it?
Mohists are hard-working and self-disciplined, and regard upholding justice and morality as their unshirkable responsibility.
So much so that everyone praised the Mohists for "wearing brown fur as their clothes, and walking on their feet as their clothes, working day and night, taking self-suffering as the most extreme thing." This is a life of poverty and hardship.
Mohists can "go through thick and thin and never turn back", which means that they will never turn back until they die.
More than twenty years ago, the Mohist family was like this, and more than twenty years later, the Mohist family is still like this!
Gu Dan looked at Qin Lisheng with complicated eyes.
It's not that Qin Lisheng didn't do well enough, let alone being unqualified. On the contrary, he did too well and was too qualified. Even if he was qualified, Mo Qiu would probably not be able to make any more breakthroughs.
In order to maintain the Mo family, Qin Lisheng spent countless efforts to prevent the Mo family from deteriorating.
The number of Mohists has never increased. It's not that no one wants to join, it's just because Qin Lisheng's requirements are extremely high.
This almost unlimited requirement for personal quality is the fundamental reason why the Mohist school can maintain its reputation and become more and more popular among the people, rather than eating at the foundation of Moqiu's reputation.
If the Mo family had really done something wrong, Gu Dan would have stood up and spoken out long ago.
but no.
The Mohist family led by Qin Lisheng made no mistakes.
Therefore, it was inconvenient for him to speak.
You can only watch silently as the Mo family moves forward as always.
It wasn't until the news of Lin Fan's death came and the changes in Xuanhu Jishi itself that Gu Dan was the first to mention it.
If the Mo family refuses to make changes, there will be many 'Lin Fans' in the future.
Unless all Mohists do not marry and have children, it is simply impossible to put an end to it.
How can ordinary people withstand the influx of countless sugar-coated bullets?
The demands of the Mohists cannot be placed on their families as well.
That's why Gu Dan said that the problem did not arise with Qin Lisheng, but that the hidden dangers had been laid as early as when Mo Qiu founded the Mo family.
"When the Mohist School was founded, the people in Da Yue were in dire straits, and the country was about to be destitute. In order to promote public sentiment and show determination, Mo Qiu just wore the cheapest short brown and the most common straw sandals to express his determination. From the beginning In the end, he never asked all Mohists to do this.
Just because Brother Mo did this, it attracted Mohists to imitate him one after another. Now it has become a tradition and even a symbol of Mohists.
But at that time, the Four Kingdoms were on conquest, and the interior of Oyue was also in chaos. Even eating was a problem. It didn't matter if the conditions were more difficult, because it was not easy to have a mouthful of food. "
Gu Dan sighed and said: "But today is different from the past, and the Xia Dynasty is not like Da Yue. The people have become richer, but the Mohist's requirements for himself are still so strict. As the state religion of the Xia Dynasty, The Mo family is like this, which will make many people have to be simple."
For example, Wang Mang's palace was old and he did not repair it. The palace collapsed and was left there.
Although this was due to concern for the people's power and wealth, it is absolutely impossible to say that this was without the influence of the Mohists.
The Mohist giants have become so simple. You, the emperor, have three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines, which are not enough. If your house is dilapidated, you have to renovate it. What kind of virtue do you have?
Then the question comes again. Emperor Xia of the Xia Dynasty, the imperial masters of the Xia Dynasty and even the Mohist giants have become so simple. How dare all the officials and officials dare to enjoy life?
Gu Dan once saw the Xia Dynasty during its court meeting.
Let's put it this way, except for Wang Mang, none of the civil and military officials could see a single new piece of clothing.
Many people even had several patches on their official uniforms - they looked really shabby.
But, is Xia Chao really that poor?
Can those civil and military officials really not be able to afford good clothes?
no.
They just don't dare.
The people have clearly become prosperous, and even Gu Dan, an ordinary farmer in Yuzhou, can eat fruits imported from other countries.
But during the Xia Chaochao meeting, the group of people seemed to have been dug up from the previous era. Each one was more embarrassed than the other. Otherwise, it would not be enough to show that he was a good official.
This is undoubtedly a rather morbid thing, but no one dares to mention it.
When Wang Mang came to power, he borrowed too much light from the Mohist family, so it was impossible for him to reveal the hidden dangers of the Mohist family, and he even had to be obedient to show his benevolence.
"I hope you will reconsider these two issues. The times are changing, and the Mohist school should also make corresponding changes. You cannot stick to the old ways. Even Brother Mo himself has changed the Mohist ideas and transformed them into the Ten righteousnesses of the Mohist school. In your hands , why can’t the Mohists make changes?”
Finally, Gu Dan said this.
The Mo family was not the enemy of the Xia Dynasty, nor did he want to put any pressure on the Mo family.
On the contrary, what he hoped was that the Mohist family would no longer be so difficult and would no longer be so demanding on themselves.
As a giant of the Mohist family, Qin Lisheng is quite capable. As long as he can look past this, he can lead the Mohist family to complete the transformation, which will be more suitable for the transformation of the Xia Dynasty.
Because of Mo Qiu's existence, the Mo family has carried too much moral and moral baggage, and now it has been heavily burdened by the Moh family, the Mohists, and even the Xia Dynasty.
Advocating virtue is of course a good thing, but advocating for the sake of advocating is still a good thing?
Hypocritically wearing patched clothes and secretly enjoying the wealth and luxury that dare not be exposed to others is too morbid and may not suppress the greed in people's hearts.
Sometimes, moral standards cannot be set too high. They are so high that they lose human flesh and blood.
Having said so much, Gu Dan actually hopes that the Mo family can have some selfishness and have some personal enjoyment, and stop being so selfless.
This was not only a burden to the Xia Dynasty, but also to the Mohists?
Lin Fan didn't have to commit suicide.
His wife, Qin Lisheng, can also be saved - even if she commits a serious crime, she can choose to be exiled thousands of miles away, and there is no need to kill her so simply.
Sometimes, being too strict and inhumane can seem a bit hypocritical.
One can't help but wonder, do they want to pursue morality, or do they want to become morality itself?
When the sun that supports all things gets too close to the human world, the sun that once shone brightly and all things sprouted will turn into a red earth thousands of miles away, and the flames are majestic.
Faced with Gu Dan's sincere words, Qin Lisheng remained silent for a long time.
In other words, he almost said nothing.
It wasn't until Gu Dan finished speaking that Qin Li Sheng stared into Gu Dan's eyes and said, "You are right."
"Um?"
Gu Dan was slightly surprised.
Qin Lisheng has never been an easy person to talk to.
Didn't you think you could convince him so easily?
"but"
Who would have thought that Qin Lisheng changed his tone and said, "I refuse."
"As you said, the Mohist family has very high requirements for Mohists, but this requirement has never been imposed on others. You said that universal love is not now, but when will we need this universal love? Where is love?”
Qin Lisheng said categorically: "The Mo family has done nothing wrong. Internal problems will be solved by themselves. Why should it change because of the opinions of others?
Could it be that doing something too good is also a fault? "
(End of chapter)
