Hello everyone, I'm Lantai.
The most eye-catching news in the past few days is the beating incident at the Tangshan barbecue restaurant. At present, netizens have accused the barbecue restaurant owners and diners present at the time of being too indifferent. However, I find this accusation a bit "blame-seeking". The people present are ordinary people, and it is normal for them to not be able to react to a sudden situation.
There is a proverb in the West that says it well: don't test human nature, human nature will not stand the test. In the same way, the Internet should not have too high moral requirements for the general public. To be honest, as an ordinary person, as long as you abide by the law, you are already fine, and the rest can only depend on the individual.
In fact, this kind of thing has happened many times in history.
Auschwitz.
In 1984, the famous Italian writer Primo Levi published the book "The Submerged and the Saved", which was about the Jews in Auschwitz. Primo Levi is not only a famous Italian writer, he also has another identity: Jewish. At the same time, he was also a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz. So the author of this book describes his own experience.
In this book, Primo Levi tells the story of how in Auschwitz, all resources, including water, were controlled by Nazi guards. At Auschwitz, the Nazis formed three Jews into small groups, each with a ration of food and water, which of course was never enough.
In Auschwitz, there was a Jewish group whose members were university professors, scholars, and writers, and they could be said to be the most educated group in the Auschwitz Jewish group, and the three gradually became very good friends.
One day, the professor and his family accidentally found a leaking water pipe behind a warehouse in Auschwitz, and after several days of observation, this water pipe would leak a little water every day around 2 p.m. for 15 minutes each timeIt was summer, and the drinking water was controlled by the Nazis, so this little bit of water was precious to the two of them, so the two tacitly concealed this discovery from the writer, just to let themselves drink more.
Of course, later this matter was still **, and the writer broke with the professor and the **family.
Seeing this, I believe you have already guessed that this writer is Primo Levi, this is his personal experience;Although the writer was furious at the time, by the time he wrote the book, Primolevi had already forgiven his two "cellmates", because after so many years, he realized that it was not their bad humanity that made his two "cellmates" betray him, but the conditions of Auschwitz where water was extremely scarce.
In that kind of environment, it is a good person who can give up this saliva to share it, but is it a bad person who can give up this saliva to himself?No, they're just ordinary people.
Fighters on the Laoshan front.
The same thing is happening in China.
General Liu Yaya said in the article "Wang Renxian" that when he went to the Laoshan front line in 1984 as an army writer, he found that among the officers and soldiers on the front line, there were many officers and soldiers who had fiancées, and their fiancées wrote letters asking for the dissolution of the marriage contract.
A female college student wrote this sentence in a letter to her fiancé: "My parents said: 'It's okay if you have to sacrifice, but what if you have a broken leg or a missing arm?'”
One company attacked and fought extremely fiercely, and more than 30 officers and men, including the instructor, died. The body of the martyr was carried down, and the letter of renunciation from the instructor's fiancée happened to arrive in the troops. The company commander gathered the surviving officers and soldiers, read the letter of renunciation in public, and lay the instructor's body quietly beside him. The whole company of the soldiers cried.
Maybe at that time, we would be as angry as General Liu Yaya at these women who broke off their marriages, but decades later, looking back at this issue, it is really difficult to blame these women who wrote letters to break their marriages.
As the female college student who broke off the marriage said, if the fiancé dies, the sadness is temporary, and time will heal all the pain;But if it is really disabled, it will be "unjust" to dissolve the marriage contract at that time, and it will be condemned by the society, but if you get married, in terms of the actual situation at the time, this female college student may not be willing to spend her life with a disabled fiancé, rather than the last two painful choice to divorce, it is better to dissolve the marriage contract in advance.
Of course, this kind of thinking, looking at it now, is full of the philistines and calculations of the small citizens, but the small citizens are more representative of the general public than heroes and moral models, aren't they?
All in all, I think we can glorify heroes, we can praise noble virtues;But we don't need to be overly critical of ordinary people's choices to protect themselves.
If Confucius did not criticize Zigong, but praised Zigong for refusing the ransom issued by King Lu, and condemned those Lu people who ransomed their compatriots abroad and returned to Lu to receive rewards, then the result must be gradual, and no Lu people who traveled abroad were willing to ransom Lu people who were unfortunately enslaved in foreign countries.
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This essay profoundly touches on how human nature manifests itself in extreme circumstances, and the choices that ordinary people make when faced with adversity. Lantai took the Tangshan barbecue restaurant beating incident as a starting point and raised a thought-provoking question: when ordinary people face extreme choices, can human nature stand the test?
First, through Primo Levi's personal experience in Auschwitz, the article shows how people can make shocking choices in order to survive in difficult situations. In a harsh environment with a lack of water, even the originally close-knit Jewish congregation was divided over a little water. This story not only reflects the test of human nature in extreme circumstances, but also makes people wonder if ordinary people can really remain calm and moral when faced with the pressure of survival.
Secondly, the article cites General Liu Yaya's interview on the Laoshan front, revealing the human dilemma faced by officers and soldiers facing life and death in the war. The decision of a female college student to break off her marriage provoked reflection on the choices of ordinary people in war. This makes us deeply realize that in the moment of life and death, the choice may be more complex for the individual, and this choice may not be so simple under the wash of time.
After the discussion of the article, Lantai emphasized the understanding and tolerance of ordinary people to make choices through the analysis of the allusion of "Zigong ransome". If Confucius could praise Zigong's choice, he might be able to change the social atmosphere of the later redemption of his compatriots in the Lu Kingdom. This is also true in today's society, where we should be more aware of the environment and pressures of ordinary people's choices, rather than being too harsh.
In general, Lantai deeply reflects on the performance of human nature in difficult situations by quoting historical events in the article. The decisions made by ordinary people in the face of life and death choices should not be too harsh, but should be more understanding and tolerant. The article is thought-provoking and provides us with a perspective on human nature and social ethics.
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