The original intention of the ethics that restrict people's daily behavior should be to avoid mutual harm caused by people's self-interested instincts. All animals except humans have no ethics to maintain the social system. What we see is that the law of elimination of the weak and the strong is naked in nature, but this does not mean that animals have no social relations.
The male lion kills the cubs in order to mate with the lioness and prompts the lioness to estrus. But such behavior will never be allowed to occur in human society. Humans have feelings and rationality that are more complex than those of animals. For emotionally unacceptable behaviors, humans have created morals to restrain each other. So from an individual's point of view, the meaning of morality is positive and positive.
Ethics will definitely contradict human instinctive desires to a certain extent, and make strong people feel repressed, and weak people become hypocritical. But even so, morality still has more advantages than disadvantages.
But since the birth of morality is driven by people’s emotions rather than pure reason, and people need to obey rationality rather than pure emotion when observing morality, contradictions arise—the form and rationality of each person’s emotions and rationality. The degree is inconsistent, so the moral standards can never be unified.
What's more serious is that there are impurities in the morals around us. Impurities in morality refer to things that are neither derived from reason nor emotion, but are imposed from other ideologies in the development of morality. For example, the ethics against homosexuality has its origins to a large extent from people’s misunderstandings, prejudices and Christian doctrines. In fact, all of us cannot say its harm, but most people naturally hate it. There are many ethics of this kind that cannot withstand scrutiny.
Therefore, for a small number of unfortunate people, the morals of most people are terrible. Of course, we should not ignore the interests of this small group of people, but it is also impossible for us to demand that all human beings have perfect rationality. Therefore, we can only long for more tolerance and less prejudice in the world. When you encounter something you cannot accept in the field of morality, if you can judge that it will not harm anyone's interests, please try to be tolerant. Morality is a potent medicine, and tolerance is the antidote to morality.
Speaking of the movie, Professor Kinsey’s subject before he engaged in human sexual behavior research was about insects. He spent 20 years collecting a million specimens of gall wasps and came to the conclusion that no two gall wasps are the same. of. When he started researching human sexual behavior, he was surprised to find that people only agreed that one type of sexual behavior was normal-the sexual behavior of couples after marriage.
However, it is puzzling that homosexual sex, premarital sex, masturbation and other sexual behaviors that do not harm the interests of others and do not go against the wishes of the parties are swept away by morals. This is puzzling. One of the young men interviewed by Professor Jin Sai experienced the bloodiest and brutal morals. At the age of thirteen, he and his same-sex partner Tommy were found by his family when they were having sex. The two were brutally punished and Tommy died as a result. , And he also left scars on his body for a lifetime. When he said to Professor Jin Sai with a simple smile, I don’t think I did anything wrong, I just hope that everyone will not treat me with that kind of prejudice, Professor Jin Sai began to realize that humans’ different sexual behaviors should not be used. "Normal" and "abnormal" should be distinguished, but "normal" and "rare" should be used to describe... The
film is adapted from real people and events. Kinsey published on January 5, 1948. The book "Male Sexuality", based on the real cases of the author, puts the generally unacceptable but real situation in front of the public. Kinsey's research has completely changed the understanding of sex in the American moral and cultural fields. When the public was forced to face the reality, they all began to reflect. But the mainstream values of the times always oscillate like a pendulum, from one extreme to the other. So in the sixties that followed, under the turmoil of mainstream values that overcorrected, the United States ushered in a revolution in sexual openness. The vast majority of people believe that this social turmoil originated from Kinsey's research, which obliterated Kinsey's noble quality as a scientist who has an infinite desire for truth.
It is worth mentioning that the American society in the 1940s and 1950s sketched out in the film about the lack of sexual knowledge and the secretiveness of sexual topics. Because the first generation of immigrants in the United States were mainly composed of Puritans and people who yearned for liberalism in Europe, while Europe was the center of civilization in the world at that time, and the North American continent was a barren and barren land. Therefore, it is easy for us to think that the group of people who gave up Europe and went to North America were at least kinder and cleaner in their hands and feet than their compatriots who stayed in Europe. It is the descendants of these kind-hearted immigrants with clean hands and feet. A few hundred years later, in the 1940s, inheriting the ancestral style, there was still a lack of knowledge about sexual concepts and an attitude that was ashamed to talk about, and even warned against the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time. Compared with China, China is as conservative and ignorant as it is. But all this has changed due to Kinsey's research results.
We used to praise some sincere and brave natural scientists who were persecuted by the ruling religion or polity in pursuit of the truth-like Copernicus and his heliocentric theory who questioned the creation of the world by Jehovah, and denied that human beings are descendants of Adam and Eve. Darwin and his theory of evolution... But to this day, natural science has been respected enough. Natural scientists rarely violate tradition and morality because of academic research. Of course, it is not that there is absolutely no, but it is far from social scientists. The thorny thorns faced by the road.
The resistance and brutal treatment that Kinsey received during the research project is inevitable. If we use a scientific attitude to explore propositions that are so close to the edge of morality and ethics, it is impossible to complete without the noble spirit of dedicating ourselves to the truth. But what is even more frightening is the mistakes Kinsey made in his research. We know that natural science laboratories can provide dust-free, sterile and even vacuum conditions isolated from the environment, but social sciences cannot. No one can provide Jinsai with an assistant or research without the slightest emotion and only with perfect rationality. Object. And when he brought the scientific research methods that were close to thorough rationality out of experiments and brought them into life, the lives of himself and his assistants fell into a mess.
Kinsey is a great and painful social science worker because his field is so sensitive and lacks previous experience. He helped many people restore their due dignity and rights, but his research results also led to negative effects under the general public's level of rational thinking.
This film can give people a lot of material for thinking. In my opinion, to avoid this suffocating unpleasantness in reality, people should try their best to make their behavior driven by their own emotions when pursuing morality, rather than being free from emotions and restrained by reason alone. But the problem is that not everyone has lofty ideological and moral qualities, so will the desire to raise the moral standards of all people to avoid the ignorance, barbarism, and prejudice in reality seem too idealistic?
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