Sally's Morality

Cleve 2022-03-21 09:02:36

The most touching thing Sally said was: No matter what, you can't betray your partner. This is the moral bottom line of his lifelong faker. Suddenly remembered "Woman Fragrance". It seems that this kind of moral standard is deeply ingrained in the hearts of Westerners. In that film, our traditional concepts were actually subverted. You do not approve of what your partner does. If you expose him, you can at least avoid it if you don't make yourself profit. Punishment, but a real man chooses not to betray his companions. How far from the lofty tales of righteous extermination of relatives that we have read since childhood. Perhaps because of this, those who exposed neighbors, friends, colleagues and even relatives during the Cultural Revolution were so calm.
During World War II, the Nazis and Japan caused great and irreparable pain to the whole world. The evil of human nature has never been displayed so vividly. The Cultural Revolution was confined to China, but it irreversibly destroyed China's cultural and moral traditions, and that generation and the next and the next, all became unbelievers. Who is to blame for all this? Can a group commit a crime unconsciously, so that the group does not regret it unconsciously?
After the Nazis fled in a hurry, a group of concentration camp prisoners in ragged clothes came in, and they couldn't forget the way they touched the brand-new sheets and ping-pong tables. In fact, these people who helped the Nazis make counterfeit money were actually accomplices, and they were finally forgiven. But can they really forgive themselves? How many supplies were bought, how many guns were made, and how many innocent people were killed by those forged pounds? Sally wouldn't have lost all her money at the casino, facing the sea so empty, if she could tell herself that everything I did was to survive.
Right and wrong have their own public opinion, but seek to be worthy of the heart. The reason why humans are different from animals is that we exist, not just for survival.

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The Counterfeiters quotes

  • Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.

    [I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else]

  • Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Only by surviving, we can defeat them.