Vol 2 Chapter 19

Chris shook his head, shaking off the wavering in his heart. No matter whether he thinks An’s heresy is reasonable or not, he can’t show it, otherwise God knows what An will do with peace of mind. These days, he has a little understanding of the girl’s way of thinking. An seems to be happy as long as she is full, and has always been happy, without fear, scruples, and good and evil.

Except for the kind of ignorant baby, no one can be as carefree as Ann. In a way, it was as if she had just been born into the world. However, Ann’s thinking is not naive, she is quite alert, if you add the powerful abilities she saw that day… like a child who has mastered a murderous weapon, how terrible it is to maintain such innocence.

“You can’t kill anyway.” Chris tried to convince her, “Let the law judge the criminal.”

“Then what do you think I should do? Don’t fight back, don’t fight back, let them deal with me?” An Xu asked, really curious. She really wanted to know what Chris meant, and it wouldn’t be very interesting if she had to be beaten and repented.

“You can reason with them.” Chris said, and An Tong laughed, which made him blush a little, and knew that he was just coaxing a child. He added: “What would the world be like if we fought and wanted to kill each other when we disagreed?”

“What does this world have to do with me?” An asked back.

“No one can escape the world we live in.” Chris said, “We can do our best to make the society stable and peaceful, and let human beings have a better living environment, so that everyone will live a good life.”

“That is to say, obeying the law is to make yourself better off, right?”

Chris faintly felt that there was a trap in the words, but at first glance there was nothing wrong. He nodded and said, “It can be said that helping others is helping oneself.”

“Then why don’t I help myself directly?” An Xu asked again.

“Only by allowing the entire human population to develop better can individuals obtain a long-term environment in which they can strive for a better life. What’s more, isn’t it better for more people to be happy than one’s own happiness?” Chris said.

“There is something wrong with your words.” An Xu put down the bowl and raised a finger, “Do you think the happiness of human beings is the same?”

“Life is safe, food and clothing are safe, and the most basic happiness is the same.” Chris said.

“So, as long as you have food, clothing and a place to live, you are happy?”

“No, there are more, such as realizing dreams and being with important people,” Chris pondered, “but the above-mentioned part of happiness is the most common in nature.”

“That’s not right.” An Xu laughed, “If there is only one bread and there are two hungry people, their happiness is the same, but if one gets happiness, the other can only be unhappy.”

“They can share half of the bread with each other, and then go to find more food together.” Chris said, “Two people can get more food than one person, and people move in groups on a continent where alien beasts are infested. , and finally built villages, cities, and the entire southern country of Yamo, precisely because of this reason.”

“What if I can’t find it?”

“You can’t always think of the bad,” Chris said helplessly.

“Okay, let’s set the background in a time period that is not too bad.” Ann waved her hand indifferently, “In a country where no one starves to death and there is no great threat, there is a poor man and a rich man. People. The rich man is rich, but he is the poorest among the rich people in the neighborhood. His dream is to blend in with other rich people, become friends with them, and become a respected person. Therefore, the rich man needs The poor became his slaves.”

“That’s not right!” Chris blurted out, frowning tightly, and said, “Is it necessary to let people’s fate be controlled by others just to have something to show off?”

“You mean, let the rich be patient?”

“Of course, no matter how nice the words are, in comparison…”

“So Chris got some things wrong.” An Xu laughed dimpled, “Why do you count the happiness of two people as a whole? Even if keeping it as it is can make the overall happiness slightly higher, but Rich people as individuals are not happy. Fifty percent of the group is unhappy no matter what they choose to do.”

“…”

“And, how do you know that such a choice can increase the overall happiness? Rich people want to get friendship, be respected, realize their dreams, and obtain happiness. This is much higher than the desire to survive like animals? Rich people have money, The misfortune of a farmer may affect only a small part of the village, but the misfortune of a rich man can affect the whole village. If he therefore stops lending grain to all the farmers in times of famine, the unfortunate Wouldn’t the spread be more serious?”

“According to what you mean, in order to make the more influential people happy, the weaker people must be sacrificed?” Chris said, suppressing his anger.

He couldn’t help getting angry, not because what Ann said was absurd, but because the scenarios she assumed abounded. How could it be right that the peasants were still struggling to eat and that the nobles had the luxury of squandering their lives?

“Does the minority have to be sacrificed for the sake of the majority?” An Xu asked in a similar sentence.

“I think so.” Chris said firmly.

“One side is a village, and the other side is your relatives, lover and benefactor. Would you sacrifice your important people?”

“Yes.” He said through gritted teeth.

“Huh?” An Xu raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised, but not convinced. “You are amazing.” She admitted, “What if there are a few scholars who have made contributions to mankind on the one hand, and a group of heinous murderers on the other?”

“Save the scholars.” Chris said, “Those murderers should pay for their crimes. Their survival may threaten more people, which is equivalent to a negative number.”

“On the left are the supernatural beings with great prospects, and on the right are a group of people who are not guilty of death but have a lot of bad deeds?”

“That… that depends on how much contribution the supernatural person can make, and how many crimes the guilty person has.” Chris hesitated.

“That is to say, like a weight, it may happen that the right side will kill the right side if it steals one more fruit, and the left side will be killed if the left side misses helping the grandmother one more time?” An Xule said incredulously.

Chris fell silent.

He failed to convince Ann, but was drawn in by her words. Just as he doesn’t understand why an answer that is all true is so confusing, he also doesn’t understand how these seemingly logical assumptions can lead to absurd endings. This is wrong, he thought in vain, unable to think of a convincing reason.

“Actually, you don’t need to think about these problems.” An Xu put down the soup he drank, and hiccupped contentedly, “Let’s go back to the beginning of the problem. If those people want to be happy, I have to accept the mercy and suffer misfortune all my life. Maybe that incident will cause social turmoil and teach bad children or something, but for me, I am saved! No matter how bad the world becomes and how bad my life becomes, it will not be better than being obedient Worse.”

“Really?” Chris looked at him, “Stay at home, no matter whether you are locked up or exiled, you are the only young lady in the Sullivan family, at least you will not be hungry and full, and you will not be whipped. will not be punished with death.”

“So what?” An Xu sneered, “Compared to living such a boring life, I think it’s better to simply cut it off and practice again.”

Her light-colored eyes stared at Chris seriously, there was no haze in them, and they were as clear as sunlight. How can anyone love and despise life at the same time? Chris couldn’t figure it out, and he was discouraged by his incomprehension and awkward words.

“Why do you stay here?” He couldn’t help asking, “If you only care about being interesting, why don’t you choose to leave or die?”

“If you want to live a fun life, how can you be impatient?” An Xu said, “Stay in Sullivan Manor and think about the boring future, but here is different. I can learn and wait for new things to happen. It’s worth it.” of…”

Speaking of this, An sincerely smiled, her eyes bent into two crescents, and said, “Look, didn’t I just wait for you?”

when-

The bell rang far away, and An gave a strange “Huh”. “Is it early today?” She turned her head and asked Chris, who blinked uncertainly, still unable to recover from the shock just now.

“I’m leaving first!” An Xu waved to Chris, thinking that his bewildered face was very cute and filled people with a sense of accomplishment. She was about to leave, but she couldn’t help but ran back a few steps, jumped up and rubbed Chris’ hair. Only then did Chris wake up from the daze, and shrank back unexpectedly, as if he had been inexplicably eaten tofu. An Xu was in a good mood, whistled, and ran away with a smile.