Facing Di Feiwen's questioning, Li Yao remained silent for a long time, still grinning: "Similar questions were actually raised by Su Changfa in the past and many immortal cultivators captured by us.
I found out that you immortal cultivators have generally accepted The same brainwashing process, do you like to use this kind of extreme dilemma to confuse people?
"Of course I have thought about these issues, and I have even fallen into a dilemma.
I think the theory of the immortal cultivator is quite reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, when this dilemma occurs, no matter what choice you make, it will be wrong, and you will all fall into it.
In sophistical logic, what else can be said?
“So, I think the focus is not on how to choose in this dilemma, but on finding ways to prevent this from happening.
"For example, you just said that when a crisis comes, mobs will inevitably appear, and they will definitely go crazy.
Why?
Isn't it because you cultivators usually look down on ordinary people, cruelly exploit them, and don't trust ordinary people?
Instead of promoting real 'education' and awakening the awareness of 'defenders of human civilization' to ordinary people, they instead instill the mentality of 'the weak eats the strong, and the winner is king' all day long.
“You usually plant the seeds of cruelty and selfishness deep in the hearts of ordinary people and treat them as ‘beasts’.
How can you expect them to obey and even self-sacrifice when a crisis comes?
"Furthermore, you guys who call yourself 'elites' are selfish, arrogant beings.
I believe that when a crisis comes, there will be those among you like 'Blood Demon Gun' Zhou Tailong who will sacrifice themselves."
It's a very small minority, right?
The vast majority of immortal cultivators will still rush to escape, and even say things like, 'I'm stronger and my life is more valuable, so I'm more qualified to live', right?
"The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.
You behave like this.
If the ordinary people below follow your example and follow your example, how can they not become a 'mob'?
"But is it possible that in an ideal society, everyone would receive comprehensive civic education from an early age and deeply realize that no matter whether they can awaken their spiritual roots or not, and whether the power they control is strong or weak, we are all human beings The masters and defenders of civilization all shoulder unshirkable responsibilities and regard 'protection' and 'sacrifice' as their highest values.
Such values are deeply imprinted in their subconscious minds.
“At the same time, we must always maintain crisis awareness.
Even if the crisis has not yet come, we will conduct a large number of ‘emergency plan’ training by combining ‘too virtual illusion’ and ‘actual combat drills’.
"When a real crisis comes, under the leadership of cultivators, countless people will step forward and sacrifice themselves to stop the enemy.
The remaining people have received a lot of training and can maintain the most basic order and evacuate and retreat in an orderly manner. , to maximize the number of people who ultimately retreat.
"Such an ideal society is what the Starry Federation and I want to pursue!"
Di Feiwen stared straight at Li Yao: "According to what your Excellency said, how high should the average moral standard of this ideal society be?
Wouldn't everyone become a sage?"
"The progress of civilization certainly means that moral standards are getting higher and higher, not the opposite!"
Li Yao said seriously, "Of course, this is just our ideal or dream.
To reach the state where everyone is a sage is simply more difficult than destroying the world.
However, we still have technology, and I believe in the progress of technology. , can make up for some moral backwardness and allow us to avoid this dilemma as much as possible.
"For example, the second dilemma you raised is whether to save the power talisman expert or the little girl.
“At first glance, this is indeed a very cruel choice, and it doesn’t seem right to save either one.
"But think about it carefully.
In order to make this choice so cruel, you deliberately set up a lot of preconditions.
For example, there is a problem with the power compartment of the starship.
The space and resources on the starship can only save one more person.
Time is tight and there is no time.
Preparing a second starship, and so on and so forth.
“What if these problems didn’t exist?
“What if with the advancement of technology, we can make a starship with larger space and higher resource recycling efficiency, so that we can take two people away?
"What if our power cabin could be more stable and have advanced self-testing and maintenance methods?
"What if there is a mysterious and mysterious 'wisdom inheritance' technology that allows the power talisman expert to transmit all his wisdom to the little girl?
"If the 'human virtualization' technology becomes popular, and the power talisman expert is really unable to evacuate physically, he will pull out his soul and put it into a ring on the little girl's finger, using the 'grandpa's' Let's go together, okay?
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"In short, one of the essential differences between humans and beasts is tools and technology.
I am a tool refiner and I believe in technology.
Technology is of course not omnipotent, but technological progress can indeed solve many problems and allow us to avoid Countless cruel and painful choices have made the whole world more civilized and beautiful.
"This is my answer."
Li Yao's eyes were clear but unwavering.
There was a trace of pity in Di Feiwen's eyes, and he laughed dumbly, shaking his head and saying: "Morality?
Technology?
Is this your answer?
It's really... too wishful thinking.
"I have been at the border of Xinghai for so long, and I have gradually come to understand the way you conduct yourself and the ideas you insist on.
Sometimes I really feel that you cultivators are like ignorant and innocent children, lying in a temporarily warm and safe place.
In the lair, I don't know the darkness of the outside world and the sinister hearts of people, but I think that your little 'persistence' and 'strength' can solve all problems.
"When immortal cultivators like us tell you with good intentions the cruelty of the outside world and the rules for surviving in this cruel world, you always cover your ears and say, 'I won't listen, I won't listen.'
You think that as long as you persist stupidly, , the dark world will disappear and the cruel laws will be reversed.
"Face reality, there are limits to both morality and technology, but there is no limit to the coldness and cruelty of the dark universe.
There will always be problems that you cannot solve, and you will always have to make extremely painful and cruel choices!
"Innocent children have to grow up, develop an iron frame and a cold heart, and learn how to survive in a world where people eat people!
"You are still staying in your lair now, on the edge of the relatively stable and safe Star Sea, so you can naturally talk about useless things, but believe me, when you go to the center of the Star Sea and experience some cruel choices that morality and technology can never solve, , maybe you will become the next Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi, and the Star Federation will become the next true human empire.
"If there is any difference between the Starry Federation at that time and the True Human Empire now, it would only be colder, more cruel, and more domineering!
Otherwise, it is not worthy to replace the True Human Empire and continue to be the slaughterhouse of the universe.
Fight in the middle!”
Seeing Di Feiwen's distorted face and stern performance, Li Yao suddenly burst out laughing.
His eyes were divergent, and he was a little distracted.
Di Feiwen was slightly startled, and in a very rare way, a little annoyed, and said in a deep voice: "Why are you laughing, sir?"
"Nothing, nothing, I suddenly thought of a joke that was not very funny a long time ago."
Li Yao shrugged his shoulders, "Ignore me, you continue."
"A joke..."
Di Feiwen frowned and asked, "Does it have anything to do with what we are discussing?"
"Well, maybe it has nothing to do with it.
I just suddenly thought of it and couldn't help myself.
I'm really sorry."
Li Yao simply squatted on the ground, tilted his neck and said, "This joke is about the solution when encountering ligers and monsters.
"In other words, most ligers and tiger monsters like to attack people from behind, biting the main artery behind the person's neck, and one blow can kill them!
"So, if an ordinary person accidentally encounters a liger-like monster in the wild, he must not panic, turn around and run away; of course, he must not weaken his legs and kneel down to beg for mercy; and he must not hold the thought of being a slave to the tiger and think that he is in trouble.
You can grovel before it, turn yourself into its minions and slaves, and escape disaster.
All of these are useless, and you will definitely die.
"The correct approach is to face the liger monster head-on, widen your eyes, open your teeth and claws, and roar loudly.
If there are sticks or branches around you, pick them up and wave them hard at the liger monster, or even hit them hard.
Poke it towards it.
"While poking, you also have to roar as hard as you can in your life, and say some heroic words, such as, 'Fuck you, you stinky tiger, come and eat me if you have the guts,' etc.
Feel free to express yourself anyway."
Di Feiwen blinked for a long time inexplicably, and his brows furrowed more and more: "Wait a minute, what you just said was an 'ordinary person' who had no power to restrain a chicken, and encountered a liger-like monster in the 'wild'.
Right?"
Li Yao nodded: "Yes!"
Di Feiwen was confused: "Then, can you escape from a tiger's mouth by doing this, just relying on tree branches and... shrews?"
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"Not really."
Li Yao said, "But at least, you can die with more dignity this way!"
Di Feiwen: "..."
Li Yao: "Well, isn't it a bit cold?
I thought it was a joke that wasn't very funny."
Di Feiwen: "Please be patient, my lord, my subordinates are carefully trying to figure out the humor in it."
Li Yao: "Actually, there is nothing funny.
I just suddenly thought that if this dark universe and all the powerful beings in it, whether it is Pangu civilization, extraterrestrial demons or other weird alien races in the starry sky, are just one, no, they are A group of ligers and monsters, and we human civilization are the unlucky ones to encounter them in the wild.
"Then, what you cultivators may be thinking more about is how to survive in front of them by any means, abandoning everything, twisting everything, even giving up the most essential things of human beings, changing everything from the inside out, and using 'ghosts' and 'minions' 'Stand alive.
"And what we cultivators think more about is how to die with more dignity."