In the confrontation with his disciples, Li Yao has always shown himself to be at ease.
It wasn't until Jin Xinyue asked this question that the smile on his face became slightly stiff.
Li Yao took a deep breath and said, "My spiritual roots were awakened only when I was inspired by seven cultivators who stood up and fought to protect ordinary people on the crystal rail train heading north to the wilderness!"
"So, I will always stand on the side of ordinary people."
"I will do whatever is most beneficial to ordinary people.
If I feel that certain decisions of the federal government will harm the interests of ordinary people, of course I will do my best to change and stop them."
Jin Xinyue's eyes became clearer and clearer, and her tone became more firm: "Master still didn't answer the disciple's question directly."
"On the side of ordinary people?
So, who is an ordinary person?
Who is even considered a 'human being'?"
"Yes, citizens of the Star Federation are of course ordinary people whom Master wants to protect."
"Disciple also believes that his current appearance may be considered a human being in the eyes of Master."
"Even those blood-thirsty demon clans with less obvious demon clan characteristics, maybe Master can treat them as 'ordinary people' and protect them sincerely."
"But what about those ugly and even grotesque bronze-blooded and black-blooded monsters?"
"In Master's eyes, are they really 'human beings'?
In the most extreme case, is Master really willing to break with the Star Federation for such 'people'?"
Li Yao was stunned, really stunned.
The third disciple he accepted was so different from the first two disciples.
Her performance far exceeded her expectations!
Looking at Jin Xinyue's eyes shining like crystal marrow, looking at the saint of the Ten Thousand Demons Palace, the daughter of Jin Tuyi, the commander of the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance, blooming with all her light and brilliance, Li Yao could no longer turn this During the conversation, it was treated as a simple master instructing his disciples.
Rather, between two cultivators.
Equal communication!
"You've got the key point.
Ever since I discovered the truth about 'human beings and monsters having the same origin', I've been thinking about who is the 'ordinary person'.
What exactly is a 'human'?
How should humans and monsters be distinguished?
What am I fighting for?”
Li Yao gestured and asked Jin Xinyue to sit cross-legged like him.
Sit on your knees.
This is the sitting method for disciples to listen to the master's teachings.
Both parties sit cross-legged, which is "sitting and discussing the Tao."
Jin Xinyue bowed deeply and sat down cross-legged without ceremony.
She knew that the following conversation was an exploration of the "Dao".
Under the Dao, all cultivators were equal, even masters and disciples.
Li Yaodao: "This problem is too complicated.
In order to understand the knot in my heart, I almost thought of going crazy, arguing fiercely with the other self in my mind, and colliding with many absurd ideas."
Of course Jin Xinyue didn't know that Li Yao's so-called "other self in his mind" was not a rhetorical device, but that there really was "another Li Yao".
She held her breath and listened to Master's understanding of "the great road".
Li Yaodao: "Let's play a thinking game.
For example, if you are a true cultivator who abides by the "Federal Basic Law" very much, and you see a beautiful, frail and sickly young girl in danger, of course you have to step forward and protect her.
She, right?"
Jin Xinyue nodded: "Yes."
Li Yao said: "But what if it's not a girl, but a ferocious-looking, rough-looking, rough and strong man who is in danger?
Do you want protection?"
Jin Xinyue hesitated for a moment: "I still need to protect him.
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He looks ferocious and innocent.
He seems to be rough and rough.
The rough and strong man may also be a husband, father and son.
He is also an ordinary person.
If he encounters a solution, If a true cultivator sees the danger, he will certainly take action to protect it.”
Li Yaodao: "If this strong man had suffered a serious illness and 99% of his body's organs had failed, and had to be replaced with a 'spiritual prosthetic body' composed of metal, gears and magic weapons, would he only have the brain or the original brain?
" Jin Xinyue pondered for a moment: "Ordinary people who put on spiritual machine prosthetics are still ordinary people."
Li Yao's eyes were bright: "What if he doesn't even have his brain?
He is already dead, leaving only his remnant soul and became a ghost cultivator."
Jin Xinyue frowned and said: "The laws of the Xingyao Federation recognize the human rights of ghost cultivators, which means that ghosts are treated as ordinary people.
In theory, they should still be protected."
Li Yao said: "Okay, suppose that when the strong man is seriously ill and about to die, the only thing that can save him is not a 'spiritual machine prosthetic body', but a bottle of 'Kunlun Divine Water'?"
"He took the 'Kunlun Divine Water', and his cells mutated and turned into a monster with a ferocious face and sharp fangs.
Is he still an ordinary person?
Is he still within the protection scope of a cultivator?"
Jin Xinyue was speechless.
This question was too complicated.
She really didn't know the answer, so she could only think deeply and shake her head, not in denial, but to express that she didn't know.
Li Yao said: "Okay, let's change the question.
Suppose that this bottle of 'Kunlun Divine Water' has been specially prepared and has minimal side effects.
After taking it, it only causes deep mutations in the cells, but the appearance is not much different from that of normal people.
Only the canine teeth are larger than those of ordinary people.
A little bit longer.”
"So, is this strong man who came back from the dead a human or a monster?"
"One millimeter?"
Jin Xinyue gestured.
The canine teeth were one millimeter longer than the average person.
It was completely invisible.
Of course, they were ordinary people!
She nodded without hesitation.
Li Yao: "What about two millimeters?"
Jin Xinyue nodded.
"What about three millimeters?"
nod.
"What about four millimeters?
What about five millimeters?"
Nod, nod.
"Ten millimeters, which is one centimeter?"
One centimeter longer than normal?
Is it a little obvious?
Jin Xinyue hesitated and nodded reluctantly.
Li Yao crossed his fingers and put them on his chin: "What if it's thirty centimeters?
It looks like a saber-toothed tiger, with long and sharp fangs.
Does that count as a 'human' or a 'demon'?"
Jin Xinyue thought for a while and wondered why: "The only demonic characteristic of many chaotic blood monsters are fangs.
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If they have fangs like saber-toothed tigers, it seems that they can hardly be regarded as 'human' in the general sense."
Bar?"
Li Yao said: "So, between one centimeter and thirty centimeters in length of the canine teeth, there must be a critical point to judge whether this strong man is a human or a monster.
Right?"
"Suppose, that critical point is fifteen centimeters."
"If this strong man is lucky enough, after taking the 'Kunlun Divine Water', his canine teeth will grow to 14.99 centimeters.
Then he is considered a human being.
In theory, cultivators should protect him."
"However, if he drinks one more sip of 'Kunlun Divine Water', the canine teeth grow to 15.01 centimeters.
Then he is considered a demon.
In theory, the cultivator should 'slay the demon' and kill him."
"If he is cruel and finds a dentist to pull out his fangs, then he has changed from a demon to a human again, and the cultivators should protect him again, right?"
Jin Xinyue felt that her canine teeth were a little sore.
According to the theory just now, it seems like this should be the case.
But once it is spread out.
I always feel like something is wrong!
How should we define the concept of "person"?
Jin Xinyue was completely confused.
Li Yao sighed and said, "It's a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
But that's how many people view the problem, including myself."
"You are right, although I have been telling myself in my heart that the demon race is derived from the human race, and all the demon race are another form of human race."
"However, if some of the chaotic blood monsters and silver blood monsters just add a tail, a pair of cat ears, or a pair of wings to the human form, I would like to accept that these monsters are the same kind.
The problem It doesn’t seem big.”
"However, those creatures with ferocious faces that have completely lost their human form.
They are like insects magnified tens of thousands of times.
It is indeed... difficult for me to accept them!"
"I know that this concept of 'judging a book by its appearance' is wrong, but no matter how I try to overcome it, I can't reverse it in a short moment."
"So, you have to ask me what exactly is a 'person'.
I'm really not qualified to define it."
"I just want to tell you a story, a story about ghost cultivators fighting for human rights in the Starry Federation more than a hundred years ago."
Jin Xinyue listened attentively and resisted interrupting.
Li Yaodao: "More than a hundred years ago, with the development of technologies such as 'Soul Lock' and 'Spiritual Mechanical Prosthetic Body', there were more and more ghost cultivators in the Starry Star Federation.
What rights should ghost cultivators enjoy?
Not considered a 'human being', it has also caused heated debate in society."
"Some people support the human rights of ghost cultivators.
After all, they retain the memories and will of their lifetimes.
Except that they have no physical body, they are no different from their lifetimes."
"But some people think that ghosts are ghosts, and humans and ghosts have different paths.
If they can be allowed to operate in broad daylight, then what kind of human rights can we talk about?
Treating ghosts as humans will only cause a collapse of traditional ethical concepts and social order. , is absolutely unworkable.”
"Incited by the latter trend of thought, various 'living supremacy' organizations have emerged one after another.
The discrimination against ghost cultivators is very serious, and there is even persecution of ghost cultivators."
"In some places, there are people with evil intentions who control ghost cultivators and manipulate them to commit illegal crimes.
After all, ghost cultivators have no entity.
Many shady activities are more convenient for ghost cultivators to do than for living people.
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This kind of The phenomenon of "controlling ghosts and harming people" has been around since ancient times and is not surprising
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"
"In this case, a typical case emerged.
A twelve-year-old girl retained a residual soul after her death, but it was obtained by a criminal group.
The evil cultivator of the criminal group refined her She was made into a ghost cultivator and asked to use her ghost powers to commit crimes."
"The little girl fought hard and refused to obey.
She tried to escape several times, but she offended these evil cultivators and was beaten to pieces."
"After this incident was exposed, of course those evil cultivators were arrested."
"However, in court, their defense lawyer argued in the face of irrefutable evidence that his client admitted that he beat the little girl to death, but it is impossible for a person to die twice.
This little girl was already dead.
Moreover, he died of a normal illness and was not killed by his client, so technically speaking, his client did not 'kill' the little girl, so there is no murder charge!
" "Of course it's against the law to kill someone, but what about killing ghosts?
It's legal in the Xingyao Federation.
Is it illegal to kill ghosts?"
"Originally, it was just a simple criminal case, but due to the fierce collision between the two currents of thought, it finally reached the Federal Supreme Court and turned into a huge debate over the definition of 'ghost' and 'human'!"
"After all, does a soul hidden in a spiritual machine's prosthetic body count as a human being?
Is killing a ghost with independent will and free thinking considered a 'murder'?".