The gentleman maintains his noble and arrogant sentiments, and does not see the villain in general.
Confucius said: "A gentleman is frank and open, and a villain is a relative." "The realm of a gentleman is a metaphysical spiritual realm, while the realm of a villain is a metaphysical material world. The two are contrasted, and the judgment is made. The villain will focus on the flies and dogs of life, and the accounting will compare the gains and losses of a city and a place, and will only look at the present, not the future. The gentleman seems to be more elegant, will take into account morality, will not only look at the immediate interests, will see the overall interests, and see the future interests. The two focus on different areas, and see different worlds. The world that the villain sees is a utilitarian world, and the world that the gentleman sees is a spiritual world that transcends utilitarianism. A villain can be mercenary, can deceive, and can betray his friends, but a gentleman looks down on such behavior, will dedicate himself to morality, will treat people and things, and will stick a knife in his friend's ribs. As a result, people think that gentlemen and villains are not of the same grade, and there will be no harmonious coexistence.
In fact, a gentleman and a villain can live in harmony. Although one focuses on the metaphysical, the other focuses on the metaphysical, one has principles, and the other has no bottom line, they can get along together. It's like a gentleman who has a servant in his house, and the servant is a villain. The original meaning of the villain was not entirely to refer to people with bad moral character, but to people of the lower class. Because at that time, most of the lower-class people had no school education, did not read, and were illiterate, so there was no bottom line in doing things. Most gentlemen have received cultural education, have ideals, ambitions, open-mindedness, affection and righteousness, and refuse to be villains. Once a villain indulges in the utilitarian realm, it is impossible to be a gentleman. However, later the gentleman developed into a moral and safe man on the surface, but a man thief and a prostitute behind his back, and became an out-and-out villain, but he could play the role of a gentleman. On the contrary, villains are more honest, and they will say what they are pursuing, and they will not be secretive like hypocrites. So, some people say that hypocrites are not as good as real villains.
The gentleman is not the same as the villain, mainly because the gentleman has a high cultural literacy and a high moral level, and will not focus on the metaphysical utilitarian realm. The villain can do things without a bottom line, and he can do things that are harmful to the gentleman, but the gentleman does not want to return the favor, but is more forbearing, or laughs it off. Because it is impossible for a gentleman to be on the same level as a villain, if you quarrel with a villain, I am afraid that people will not laugh at the villain, but will laugh at the gentleman. The very simple truth is that if a dog bites a person, should a person still bite a dog? People ignore it, just think that they have met with bad luck, but they don't bother with the dogs. It is the nature of a dog to bite a man, and it is also the nature of a gentleman not to bite a dog.
According to Confucius's evaluation criteria, many people are villains. After all, many people are lower-class people, who do not read, do not read, do not know too much etiquette and morality, and may have no lower limit on doing things, as long as they can obtain their own interests, there is no need to take into account the feelings of others. This is not the case with a gentleman, who has to take into account the feelings of others and take into account many aspects of meaning. So, the gentleman does things frankly, and the villain does things secretly. A gentleman does things for his own benefit and self-interest, and consciously feels him; The villain is mercenary, harming the interests of others, and even harming others and not benefiting himself. What kind of person adopts what kind of way of doing things depends on the education of the person, and whether the person is a gentleman or a villain.
There was once a smash hit prose writer, who was still a university professor, who suffered a piracy crisis. Many of his books were pirated, and he fought against pirated booksellers, but in the end he was never able to do pirated booksellers. He advocated ignoring the villain, lest the more he ignored, the more he strengthened. Lu Xun advocated not scolding people who were inferior to himself, so as not to scold him famously. A gentleman should not scold the villain, lest he scold the villain famously. There is no lower limit to what villains do, which makes many gentlemen despised. However, what the gentlemen can't do, the villains can do. Even the things that the gentlemen disdain, the villains can do well. Does the world really need a gentleman?
A gentleman is needed at the moral level, and a gentleman is also needed in terms of behavior and behavior, but there are a large number of villains, constituting a huge group, chasing fame and fortune, and operating without a lower limit, so that many gentlemen dare not get close and dare not communicate. It is not necessarily that the gentleman is pretentious, but the gentleman is unwilling to condescend and become a villain. Not knowing the same as villains has become the principle of behavior and behavior of gentlemen, otherwise they will devalue themselves and become villains. The gentleman lives in the spiritual world he created, while the villain lives in the worldly world of flies and dogs, and the two threads develop in parallel, but there is not much intersection. If there is fellowship, it must be the gentleman who suffers, and the villain takes advantage. It's like Gao Yanei framed Lin Chong after he molested Lin Chong's wife in "Water Margin". Gao Yanei and Gao Yu are both villains and took advantage of them, while Lin Chong is a gentleman and suffers losses everywhere, until he kills Lu Qian, who provoked trouble, he can be regarded as venting some of the anger in his heart.
The villain has his own principles of doing things, and as a gentleman, don't be like the villain, so as not to be damaged by it, and even turn yourself into a villain. And hypocrites are more hateful, and it is easy to be more villain than villains, so that people have to guard against them.