If one day, your opinion is different from that of most people, are you following the crowd? Or try to express? If you have a new discovery that has a subversive conflict with your original understanding, would you dare to defend your discovery and point of view?
The original English name of "Snow Monster Adventure" is "Small Foot". From the name, you can know that this is an animated film from the perspective of snow monsters. The movie is about a snow monster tribe living in seclusion on the top of a mountain. A snow monster named Migo accidentally discovered human society, but neither his tribe nor the humans believed in himself, and finally resolved conflicts and misunderstandings through communication.
Stories are a common theme: communication solves everything. But there is a contradiction in the middle that will be ignored by the audience, that is, the difference between the two ways Migo persuaded the crowd. The first time was when he discovered human beings and wanted everyone to believe in him, so he brought a human back to the tribe; the second time was when he wanted everyone to reveal the secret of the Yeti to humans, and through voting, everyone unanimously decided to release the fog and walk down the mountain go.
If you think about it carefully, you will find that the first time Migo was a minority, he chose to convince everyone with facts; the second time he was a majority, he chose to vote to decide the fate of a tribe. Today I don't want to discuss the question of how decisions are made, but I want to think about whether numbers can determine the justice of opinions.
Since the majority is our most common decision method, it is difficult to jump out of it, so I am going to replace it with the trolley problem to illustrate, which is also a matter of quantity. Saying that there is a tram on the rails, and 5 workers, about to collide, without reminding them of the time and conditions; you have a valve at hand, and when you press it, the train will derail, the workers will be saved, and the people on the car will die; you You can also not press, the train rushes towards the workers, and the workers die. Which do you choose to save?
This ethical dilemma actually stems from the issue of shooting aboriginal people: suppose a botanist arrives in a dictatorial country one day, and the dictator arrests 20 innocent indigenous people and will all be executed; but if the botanist shoots himself One of them, the other 19 can survive. So should this botanist kill one person to save the remaining 19?
If 20 people voted for this decision, what do you think the outcome would be? Going a step further, if you were one of 20 people, and you were the one who might be shot, would you choose to sacrifice yourself or die with everyone?
This is an ethical question, and both options have ethical dilemmas, so you have to weigh them. So why is it not difficult to make decisions at ordinary times? Because we substitute a reasonable premise: the majority is just, and it is correct to obey the majority.
So there is a completely different way for the same person in "The Snow Monster Adventure" in different situations: when he is in the minority, he must do his best to persuade everyone instead of obeying the majority; when he is in the majority, vote directly made a decision. We don't even realize it when we watch it.
The first half of the movie is actually saying: Your common sense and the cognition of the majority are not necessarily absolutely correct; several versions of the ethical dilemma also remind us that quantity cannot simply be used to measure the justice of decision-making.
The main thing is, if one day, you stand on the side of the minority and become a minority opinion holder, will you realize that you should maintain your own opinion? Do you have the courage to stand up and speak out? Are you capable of persuading the majority?
Maybe Migo in "The Snow Monster Adventure" has encouraged everyone to be brave to prove themselves, even if they are suspected by everyone; but for us ordinary people, it is more in the second half of the movie, obeying the majority, and lacking to become the minority , to maintain the courage of the few, even if that is your intention.
Many times we cannot choose our own position. You are the minority, and you are the five workers on the track. So if you are an adult, please remind yourself to summon the courage to defend your own rights and interests; if you are a parent, don’t simply instill in your children the decision-making justice of the minority obeying the majority, because one day your children may become the minority. , and he dared not defend himself.
More directly, seeing a real person is more important than judging a majority opinion or a minority opinion; whether a child can express his innermost thoughts is more important than whether he obeys
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