Chapter 2284: Cultivators Dilemma (1/2)
Li Jialing looked at the rows of disabled veterans outside the window, bowing and offering flowers, clenched his fists and said, ”It must not be like this in the days of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi.”
”all the same.”
Li Yao said, ”If it is said that in the era of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi, there were not so many corruption and intrigue chaos within the cultivators, and the cultivators were not as selfish and morally corrupt as they are today. The immortal cultivators have a relatively high moral standard, just because the empire was still in the pioneering period and could swallow the interests of the newly conquered regions from all directions to ease internal conflicts.
”For a country like the true human empire, its vigorous vitality must be built on the continuously accelerating expansion. When the expansion stops, various internal contradictions will intensively erupt, causing the empire to decline irretrievably.
”The empire is decaying to the extent it is today, and it has long been dying and there is no cure. Any'renovation' is a temporary cure without a cure. At most, the tumor on the body can be removed, but it is impossible to change the defects in the deep genes, let alone Li Linghai and Lei. After becoming a tiger, even if Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi is reborn, how can he heal this country?”
”If you really want to reincarnate and rebirth the empire, you must refute and deny the cultivating avenue of'the weak and the strong, the king and the loser'-the question is, the real human empire without the guidance of the cultivating avenue is still true.' Is it true human empire? Is there any immortal cultivator who can withstand his own fundamental Taoism and do such a destructive reconstruction?”
Li Jialing thought for a long time: ”It has to be so, is there no other way out of this?”
”It has to be so.”
Li Yao seriously said, ”Survival is the first instinct of life. As long as Xiu Xian Dao adheres to the rule of'the weak will eat the strong, the king will lose the enemy', everyone will be driven by instinct to use all resources on themselves and consume them in order to survive. In a meaningless internal struggle, even if it is not used for the time being, it will be secretly hidden for emergencies, and will never be invested in the public, country, civilization, and external struggles. What does this talk about'optimal allocation of resources' What?”
Li Jialing frowned, shook his head and said, ”Nevertheless, is the Dao of Cultivation better? Is it possible that under the guidance of the Dao of Cultivation, practitioners will be able to maintain a very high moral standard and will fight for the masses wholeheartedly. Will there be class consolidation and huge interest groups? If this is the case, the Xinghai Republic will not be destroyed, and the Firefly will not be destroyed!”
”You are right, I don't want to deceive people. Both the cultivator and the immortal cultivator are humans. As long as they are human, human instincts, desires and defects are readily available. Everything that happened in the real human empire today will be tomorrow... Yesterday, it happened on the Xinghai Republic and the Firefly, and it even led to two destructions.”
Li Yao fell into deep thought and murmured, ”But I am still willing to believe that, at least, in a mainstream thinking of'the strong help the weak, the weak give feedback to the strong, the strong and the weak work side by side and support each other' etc. In this society, people do not have such strong motives, and they have to harm the interests of the whole to strengthen themselves. Since the whole is the strongest backing and warmest support of the individual, first put the interests on the whole, and strengthen the whole first. It’s not against humanity to think about yourself, right?
”If you still can't understand, construct a simplest social model. In this model, the entire society is highly compressed and simplified, with only two people and one resource.
”One of them is you. You are not sure whether you are a cultivator or a cultivator. You can flexibly change between the two strategies of cultivating and cultivating.
”The other person is a master whose strength is far above you, but he is seriously injured now and urgently needs this resource to recover.
”Naturally, now this resource is in the hands of you who are strong and healthy. If you choose to consume this resource by yourself, you can increase your strength by 10 points, and another severely injured master is very likely. He died immediately.
”But if you give resources to this badly injured master, after he recovers, his strength can be increased by 100 points.
”By the way, in addition to the two of you, there are various threats in this world. The stronger your overall strength, the more likely you are to survive in a perilous world.
”The problem is here. In the first case, if you know that this severely injured master is a ruthless immortal cultivator who believes in the concept of'the weak eats the strong, the strong is the respect, the winner takes the loser, the winner takes all'. This precious resource is given to him, so that he can fully recover his strength, and your strength is only one-fifth or even one-tenth of his?