Chapter 2348 Euthanasia of Emotion and Desire
"Residents in District 10084 don't have the concept of 'working at sunrise and resting at sunset'. They haven't seen the sun for a full 10,000 years, so they all use the never-ending schedule of 'three shifts'."
Li Jialing said with deep emotion, "Every day very early, they have to get up to fertilize all kinds of underground plants, mosses and mushrooms. These crops do not grow underground, even after genetic modification, they are quite delicate. , they need to mix various minerals that are ground into fine powder in the excrement of rock worms, become fertilizers and growth agents, and spread them in different ways in order to thrive, and if they are not careful, large areas will wither. Annihilation of the whole town.
"It's hard to wait for the vines, moss and mushrooms to grow, and you have to risk your life to climb up the rock wall, enter the rock crevice to collect them, and then transport them to the cave to chop them up for the rock worms to eat, and the rock worms While eating, they have to work tirelessly to massage the rock worm. The skin of the rock worm is extremely tough, and the massage force is not enough. It takes a lot of strength to activate its flesh and blood, and breathe Working non-stop for more than a dozen hours, almost without a second, is not exhausted.
"After working so tremblingly and sweating profusely for several years, it takes only one rock worm to mature and produce flesh. When hundreds or thousands of rock worms are carried to four-digit towns over several kilometers, only a handful of magic weapons can be exchanged. And energy, and cans of ultra-high compressed air that are worth nothing above ground.
"Let's not talk about the problem of not getting enough to eat, because the fresh air is seriously insufficient, and the residents here never even dare to get too emotional, because whether they are crying, laughing or making a scene, it will increase the consumption of oxygen and bring great harm to the town. The total quota of fresh air brought unnecessary loss, and over time, they became so dead-hearted, ashen-faced, and unsmiling.
"Only carefree children who are ignorant and ignorant of the preciousness of fresh air will laugh unscrupulously and consume oxygen that is more precious than spar.
"It's still not an accident. If you can barely survive in peace, life is worse than death, and it's miserable, not to mention what happens if savages and monsters from deeper underground invade, or an earthquake causes the entire town to collapse, or The magma spurted out, turning everyone into ashes in an instant. These natural disasters were all sharp knives hanging above their heads, and they might fall down in the next second, bringing them all-time and omnipresent mental pressure.
"This is a natural disaster, and there is also a man-made disaster, that is, the accidental discovery of mineral veins or ancient ruins!
"Discovering mineral veins and relics should have been a good thing, but the residents here are too weak, and the throat of the oxygen supply has been blocked by the upper town, so they have no ability to protect themselves. Come to the upper-level urban gangsters with ulterior motives and hard-to-fill desires, or the immortal cultivators on the shallow ground and on the ground.
"At that time, at least they will be caught as slave labor and cannon fodder for exploring the ruins, and at worst, they will not even be qualified to be slave labor and cannon fodder. They will either be deported to a deeper underground and become savages, or they will be killed directly. Immortal cultivators naturally have stronger and better-trained slave workers who can take their place.
"Such a tragedy has never been encountered in District 10084, but it has been encountered many times in other five-figure towns. If a town discovers priceless mineral veins and ruins, it often means the coming of destruction. , Over time, most of the five-figure towns have learned their lesson, and honestly stay in their own one-third of an acre of land to grow mushrooms and raise rock worms, and strictly prohibit residents from going out to explore and take risks. If anyone finds a new The ore veins and relics, even those that are just suspected ore veins and relics, are often killed mercilessly, leaving the secret in the dark forever.
"Brother Yao, from the Xinghai Republic to the Real Human Empire, no matter how the political situation and social situation on the ground change, these underground people have always lived this kind of life for thousands of years. If they really retain strong emotions , that emotion has long been condensed into the word 'pain'. If they really have a desire, the only desire is to live, and to continue to live in such a desperate way.
"Brother Yao, you said just now that I was fooled by Sister Long. I have thought about it carefully, and I don't think that Sister Long's approach of brainwashing is correct. I can only say that if there are really many underground residents willing to accept Sister Long Brainwashing, washing away most of their emotions, I also understand their approach very well, because what they wash away is nothing but pain that can never be resolved, despair that can never be reversed."
Li Yao was silent and lost in thought.
Li Jialing seemed to pour out all the depression that had been pent up for ten days or even more than ten years, and continued: "Brother Yao, I heard that in the Xinghai Republic more than a thousand years ago, in the world of cultivators, there was a kind of The concept of 'humanitarianism' holds that when a person suffers from a terminal illness and falls into pain that is absolutely inescapable, he has the right to end his own life, which is called 'euthanasia'.
"And in our True Human Empire, we also advocate that when a cultivator can no longer contribute to human civilization, for the dignity and dignity of the cultivator, he should die generously and leave resources to others.
"When I was receiving Li Lingfeng and Wu Yinglan's instructions, I thought of death once. For me at that time, death was not a pain, but a relief.
"The most precious thing for human beings is life. If we all agree that in the face of irresistible and unbearable pain, people can choose to voluntarily give up their lives. Then, what's wrong with just voluntarily giving up part of emotions, desires and free will? What about it? Must it be against ethics and morals, completely unacceptable, or even completely incomprehensible?"
"It's two different things."
Li Yao pondered for a long time, and finally said slowly, "I admit that you and I, as individuals, have the right to end our own lives when we are enduring unresolvable pain. This is indeed in line with the spirit of humanitarianism.
"But it is one thing for individuals to choose to end their own lives, and quite another for a supreme authority over the masses to end all lives on a mass scale.
"Individuals can flinch, give up and surrender in the face of pain, but any responsible supreme authority should never use 'mass euthanasia' to solve the problem. This is not to solve the problem at all, but to solve the problem of people." '!
"To put it simply, if faced with a shortage of resources, Long Yangjun or the highest authority of the Holy League will require individuals to suppress their emotions and desires as much as possible, and reduce resource consumption to the limit. This is the same as food shortages requiring people to tighten their pants What is the difference between belts? If there is a shortage of food, then find a way to produce more food. No matter how tight the belt is, people still have to eat. Existence is called the spirit of all things!
"So, I absolutely cannot agree with the 'resource shortage solution' proposed by Long Yangjun or the Holy League authorities. This solution is too untechnical, too irresponsible, and it can't solve the fundamental problem at all, even if the underground people really kill All emotions and desires, they still need to eat and breathe fresh air, at most consume a little less, so what is the point of delaying the inevitable destruction?
"Of course, what you said just now is not unreasonable. The tip of the iceberg shown by Long Yangjun has already made me understand why so many people are willing to be branded with the three principles of origin, so let's continue read on.
"I've seen enough of District 10084. Where is Long Yangjun's exact coordinates? Let's find her to find out!"
Li Jialing inserted a special chip into Li Yao's wrist crystal brain, saying that in this way, Li Yao and Long Yangjun's wrist crystal brains could be connected together.
Long Yangjun went deeper underground to mediate the war among savages and preach her "ruthless and desireless" way. Naturally, her whereabouts are erratic. Only this chip can lock her precise coordinates.
Li Yao's heart moved, and he asked Li Jialing very curiously, why is there still a large-scale war in the underground world?
Li Jialing nodded and said yes, generally speaking, if it is an established town with a civilized system, large-scale wars rarely occur between each other. The main reason is that the fresh air in the underground world is too precious. People are careful not to take a big breath, even if they hold themselves until their lips turn blue, they dare not take a deep breath.
And war is the thing that consumes the most oxygen. Just one incendiary bomb with little destructive power on the ground is enough to exhaust the oxygen in several tunnels and large underground cavities, not to mention the upgraded version of thermobaric bombs. such as.
Therefore, once two five-figure towns go to war, it is often a tragedy for both sides, and no one can get benefits.
But this does not mean that human beings can completely abandon their nature and stop killing each other.
If extreme natural and man-made disasters occur, such as an earthquake that crushes most of the town, magma destroys all moss, vines and mushroom plantations, or a sudden plague kills all rock worms, once faced with such a catastrophe , the survivors had no choice but to gather in groups, like madmen, and wage war on neighboring towns.
Nine out of ten such hastily assembled attacks ended in disastrous failures. The losers had no way to retreat, so they could only venture deeper into the underground, a dark death area that didn't even have a number.
99% of them will become a delicious meal for savages and monsters, and 1% of the "lucky ones" will lose their nature and wisdom in a short time, and become a new generation of savages.