Chapter 1698 Look at It Scientifically, Think Rationally (Meow!)

A week later, Priestess and the others returned.

It's just that this time everyone looked gloomy and ugly.

"What's the matter? Each of them stretches their faces so long?"

Sitting behind the desk, looking at the angry girls with puffy cheeks, Fang Zheng chuckled.

"Could it be that the mission failed?"

"No, Lord Knight, that... the mission was successful, but..."

Priestess hesitated to speak, stopped to speak but wanted to, she looked at Emilia who was not far away, at this moment Emilia was lowering her head, looking at the ground without saying a word. And it was rare for Parker to be by Emilia's side without saying a word.

"You report."

Fang Zheng nodded to Priestess, and Priestess hurriedly stood up and explained the whole situation to Fang Zheng.

According to what the Priestess said, the task they took on to clear the goblins this time was at the junction of the border of the Kingdom of Lugnica and the gathering place of the elves, because there were goblins harassing the elves tribe, so The elf tribe asked for help, but due to Lugnica's serious xenophobic tendencies, and Lugnica has no king now, they finally decided to find adventurers to resolve the situation—this is why the elf archers and the others would come to find them , and after the next mission, the other party also joined in.

It went smoothly at the beginning. For Felt and Emilia, after witnessing the atrocities of Goblins with their own eyes, they also experienced a series of baptisms from shock to anger. Then a group of people went deep into the ruins, not only eliminated the Goblins entrenched in the ruins, rescued the captives who were abused by the Goblins, but also found the ruler of the Goblins --- a monster from the Demon Army. troll!

Facing the troll, everyone fell into a hard fight at first, but then the idiot troll made a mistake.

It actually started to chant the fireball technique...

Then he was overthrown by a burst magic of Hui Hui, who liked to face waves in the second class.

It can be said that the entire plan to encircle and suppress goblins was a complete success in the end, but the problem came after this.

After eliminating the trolls, the Priestess and his party began to habitually search for the lair of the little goblins, and thoroughly cleaned up these evil species. But what they didn't expect was that Aisi was seen by Emilia when she was about to kill a little goblin, and then Emilia actually stopped her.

She wants to save this little goblin!

The Priestess and Ais are naturally unwilling to do this. They have surrounded so many goblin lairs, so they naturally know how dangerous it is to let these little goblins survive, but Emilia thinks that goblins are not You are born so bad, what you do is massacre!

The two sides quarreled because of this, and at this moment, the little goblin who was sheltered by Emilia actually picked up a stone and tried to attack Emilia, but was stabbed to death by Aisi, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed. At first, everyone thought that Emilia should recognize the nature of those goblins, but unexpectedly, Emilia said that we wanted to kill them first, and it was only natural for that little goblin to fight back...

Now even Felt felt that Emilia was unreasonable.

So after that, the two sides had a big quarrel, and the priestess and the others insisted that goblins are evil existences, and if they stay, they will only cause disaster for thousands of years. And Emilia said that it is completely unreasonable to infer good or bad from race, and this kind of thing should not be done at all!

Because of this, on the way back, the atmosphere in the team was quite tense. No one expected that a simple mission would turn out like this in the end...

But Fangzheng had expected it.

Otherwise, why would he arrange for Emilia to kill goblins?

"Okay, I understand the general situation."

After listening to Priestess' report, Fangzheng nodded, and then looked at Emilia.

"So Emilia, what do you want to say?"

"I...my opinion has not changed. I don't think those little goblins should be killed...just because they are goblins, it's too unreasonable to kill them!"

"But I didn't say that, if you don't kill them, these goblins will attack other villages and people!"

Hearing this, Huihui couldn't help but refute, but Emilia obviously had her own insistence.

"If you hadn't killed so many goblins, they wouldn't have been reduced to attacking villages!"

"Is it our fault? If these goblins didn't attack the village, why should we destroy them!"

Watching Huihui and Emilia's argument, I always feel that things are developing towards "Which came first, the chicken or the egg"... No wonder they didn't quarrel all the way to a conclusion, if this can be quarrelsome The result is hell.

"Okay, stop arguing."

Fangzheng was too lazy to listen to such a low-level quarrel, so he waved his hand directly to signal the two to stop.

"I have heard the reasons of both of you, and I understand your thoughts. Now, let me explain my thoughts."

Hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Fangzheng, and Fangzheng swept them around.

"Here, I will not immediately tell you who is right and who is wrong. The first thing we have to do is to think scientifically and look at the problem rationally, and then we can solve the problem."

".........???"

"The first thing I want to say to you is, the definition of good and bad, what is good and what is bad? What do you think determines this?"

"This……………"

Faced with Fang Zheng's question, the entire group was speechless.

"What is beneficial to race, ethnic group, and our development is a good thing. Conversely, it is a bad thing. For example, why can't we kill people casually? Because killing people casually will cause social chaos and make a country dilapidated, and this As a result, the citizens of this country cannot live with peace of mind, which reduces their quality of life. In order to allow the citizens to live and work with more peace of mind, there is a law strictly prohibiting random killing."

Fang Zheng stretched out his finger and tapped the table.

"Why do you advocate helping the weak and helping each other? Because only by uniting in this way can we grow stronger. Human beings are very fragile. In the wild, human beings are not as physically fit as wild animals, and they don't spit venom. They will die when they get sick. They Unlike wolves, and also inferior to the vitality of sub-dragons and giant dragons, if we don't unite, human beings will perish long ago. Therefore, we advocate unity and oppose isolation."

Facing Fang Zheng's words, the girls nodded blankly. Although they couldn't understand what Fang Zheng said, they understood the general meaning.

"So, kindness and justice, good and bad are always subjective definitions, and the values ​​that are applicable to one ethnic group do not mean that they are also applicable to another ethnic group."

Having said this, Fangzheng looked at Emilia.

"Emilia, your idea is good, but unfortunately there is one premise missing."

"premise?"

"That's right, that is, you must reach a consensus with the goblins that what they are doing is wrong."

"This...does this still need to be asked?"

Emilia was dumbfounded, she didn't know what to say, it must be wrong to attack the village and abuse the girls!

"Of course, it is a matter of course for you, but it may not be the case for other races. For example... Do you think cannibalism is a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Of course it's a bad thing!"

"But on the small island to the south, there is a race called cannibals. They will dig out the hearts of defeated enemies and swallow them alive... What do you think?"

"Wow... is it true or not?"

"I definitely don't want to go to that island... I don't want to meet cannibals..."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the girls all showed expressions that couldn't bear to look directly at them, while Emilia frowned and began to think.

But at this time Felt spoke.

"Do you need to think about it? Those guys must be lunatics! Crazy!"

"Really? Then if I want to tell you that in their culture, eating the enemy's heart means gaining the enemy's powerful power...that is, they will eat it only after they recognize this powerful enemy. Lose his heart. For the cannibals, this is not a bad thing, not to mention a crime, but a kind of glory... So in the face of these cannibals, how do you convince them that cannibalism is a bad thing? ?”

"This……………"

This time, Emilia didn't know how to answer.

"The same goes for goblins. You may think that goblins are evil and insane. You must uphold justice, but no matter how you use language to modify it, the essence of hunting goblins will not change—that is the nature of goblins." The existence of Goblins threatens the safety of human life, so we will destroy Goblins."

Having said this, Fangzheng spread his hands.

"Look, it's that simple. It's meaningless to entangle good and bad. We have to see the essence through the phenomenon. The way of life of goblins is to rob and plunder, and goblins don't have females, so they can only plunder other people. Women of different races are forced to reproduce and reproduce, this is an objective reality and cannot be changed by subjective will."

While talking, Fangzheng chuckled.

"The same is true for the demons. Do you think that the demons are destroying, destroying, and evil? But they just want to destroy the world and reunite with their mother. How about it? Doesn't it sound pitiful and sad? All they do is to see their mother, so, for the sake of pity for these demons, should we just let them destroy the world?"

“…………………”

"If one day, a mysterious race suddenly appears and launches an attack on humans, the reason is 'You humans wantonly kill other life forms and devour their flesh and blood to maintain your own existence. This is too evil! It must be eliminated!' , What should you do? Do you listen to them and stop eating, and starve to death? Or rise up and resist?"

"this……………"

"The lion king will kill and eat the cubs left by the previous lion king, and then have his own cubs with the lioness. Disabled wolves will be dismembered and killed by the wolves. By human standards, these are evil It can’t be any more evil behavior, but for them, this is just an action necessary for survival. What the lion king needs is to leave his own offspring, not to raise the children of the previous lion king. The wolf pack needs to maintain vitality to be able to face the next In one hunt, a wounded and disabled wolf will not bring any benefits to the wolf pack, but will hinder it.”

Fangzheng crossed his hands, leaned on the back of the chair, slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and looked at the girls who were deep in thought.

"Look, this is the difference in basic values. What is taken for granted by us may be unacceptable to other races. What is taken for granted by other races may be unacceptable to us."

"Could it be... that they can't live together?"

"In some aspects, we can seek common ground while reserving differences. For example, elves do not eat meat, but it will not prevent humans from eating meat. Although it may not be used to it, it is acceptable. This is the point of seeking common ground while reserving differences. But on the other hand, you cannot persuade a wolf to eat meat Eat grass, because wolves are carnivores, if they eat grass, they will die, this is the price of life-threatening, wolves will definitely not listen to you."

"I really didn't expect you to say so many weird things, little brother. It sounds quite reasonable."

"Objective reality and subjective will exist at the same time, and so do you."

Looking at Felut, Fangzheng chuckled.

"That's what you're going to learn too."

"Hey? Why should I learn this?"

"In order to be able to find a theoretical basis for your hatred, what you said in the meeting hall before, although very reasonable, but the theoretical basis is very weak, you have to look at the essence through the phenomenon, find the root of all this, and then discover problem, solve problem...especially if you really want to overthrow Lugnica's system."

"Woo...it sounds so troublesome..."

"If you're not king, you don't have to bother."

After saying a word to Felut, Fangzheng looked at the silent Emilia again.

"You too, Emilia."