Like to see human nature from another angle

Citlalli 2022-03-23 09:01:43

My understanding is that
people are a combination of good and evil. In different environments, they are affected differently, and combined with their own abilities, they will respond differently. For example, if the protagonist comes to a wealthy town, has a job, and people are rich in food and clothing every day, they will definitely not ask for something in return. If they come to a town that is extremely poor and on the verge of death, people will not I went to eat her family and shared her. In the end, the protagonist followed the director to this impoverished town with more than a dozen families to conduct a human experiment. Here I am more concerned about an environmental issue, and the environment determines the people. , and man is a contradictory body, an individual struggling in the environment, different people have different situations, each person has his own needs and supplies, when there is a surplus between them, the development of social instability, to the When there is a deficit, the society develops more stably, and the demand and supply are constantly changing, but in short, when the self is not guaranteed, there is a certain tendency for people to help others, that is, there is a psychological hope of getting feedback , and after one's own needs are satisfied, people's help to others may be selfless, that is, there is no necessary return, but a direct output, in a pleasant natural state, a natural state in which water flows down, and when When the help is in danger, if the helper regards the act of helping as a dangerous situation, it is a manifestation of a struggle, a trade-off between interests, and a struggle against the unknown, because there is a potential threat, at this time people All people have the mentality of getting rewarded. When they do not get rewarded, they will feel the feeling of lack, which is evil. All the evil in the world comes from the lack of a certain aspect, and the correspondence between evil and good is just like this.
All forgiveness, punishment, etc., you have to put it into the environment, what should you do? People are dogs. People are not nobler than dogs. At least dogs are more loyal than people. To put it bluntly, yes People make comparisons with the dog, no matter what the dog does. Since people want to make themselves noble and differentiate themselves from pigs and dogs, then they should restrain the desires of animals and do something like what people imagined, and then people will gradually become the people they imagined. That is, people have advantages and disadvantages. The reason why people are people is that people are people, and people themselves have become civilized people today through tens of thousands of years of education from animals, but no matter what, people are first animals, and then only People, because of different environments and different education, there are all kinds of people, Chinese, Japanese, British, Americans, Germans, French. Now suppose that different people come to different towns. If the protagonist is a Red Army soldier who comes to an anti-Japanese village, then it is the same situation. A western killer is different, but it is a beautiful young girl who escapes sin and yearns for kindness. Comes to a town with animal desires, jealousy, hypocrisy, selfish lies, but no legal system, then things will not be very good here. Control, various unequal treaties will appear, human morality is just a veil in the absence of mandatory constraints, conflicts of various interests will appear and cannot be judged fairly, and democratic voting here is no different from primitive society. , in the absence of core leadership, all things tend to be private. As every townsman will have his own needs and problems, and all the needs and problems are mixed in one person, it is difficult for gods to serve, so it seems that the concentrated expression of human nature here is actually the unprovoked human nature of the townspeople Laissez-faire abuse of the human rights of the protagonist.
Humans are born with human rights, upon which all subsequent attributes are built, when one does not understand one's own rights or disregards one's own rights and the rights of others, in other words even in an environment that does not fully recognize individual rights, The establishment of all things lacks a foundation, so the so-called morality and so on are also just false, for example, the country, when the Qing government does not take you seriously, all the empires will come to exploit you and occupy you. What can you do? You are in a position where you have no rights and can ignore you. The focus here is on interests. What else? If you ask me whether this is reasonable or not, it is actually very reasonable in our opinion, because the ability is not In a fair world, how can there be true equality, then it would be ridiculous to still think about examining the quality of human nature in it, when a person becomes a tool for some people to extract benefits, and when he has no ability to refute it, he reflects. Even if the relationship between the naked slave and the slave owner of human beings, imagine, what is the difference between the slave and the dog at this time, and when the slave turns over and has the ability, it will be liquidated. So what's the use of imagining yourself as a townsman and making a moral evaluation of human nature? It is nothing more than that you can either be the same as the townspeople or become the leader of the towns and make a fair choice. Under the circumstance of vision, wisdom and ability, the so-called judgment of human nature is nothing but a farce, and behind it is the ignorance and hypocrisy of human beings. Don't talk about human nature. In society, first of all, there must be the constraints of the legal system. This is to enforce the protection of individual rights. It comes from moral norms. When everyone is well-off, people will naturally live and work in peace and contentment. The next person will be well educated, then the good side of human beings will be magnified infinitely, while the evil side will be suppressed like cancer cells. I believe that evil exists wirelessly. As long as there are differences and deficiencies, there will be inequality and evil. After we know the source of evil, we will understand the world, and we will no longer discuss the issue of human nature. How to make up for these inequalities, the last thing I want to say is that the most important thing for human nature is the cultivation of the acquired environment. In fact, human nature can be taught, just as we are from monkeys to today.

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  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.