Chapter 291

"Just now the affirmative third debater said that moral constraint is the achievement nurtured by thousands of years of civilization, but I want to say that law is the symbol of civilization,

Law advocates freedom, fairness, and everyone being equal is a huge progress in social development. Our school's hundreds of international students summarized what they heard and felt and found that Western civilized countries are all sound in law and respect freedom..."

Jingwai's third debater, He Xue, spoke eloquently according to the debate rules, strongly promoting their point of view to the surrounding judges and audience—law is the symbol of civilization.

Li Ye felt incomparable contempt in his heart.

【You are afraid of having some misunderstanding about the laws of Western civilized countries, right? Rich people play with law, poor people all play with violence!】

But looking at the way the people around were listening carefully, Li Ye was incomparable and helpless.

In the early eighties, the trend of the whole nation learning from the West was not weak at all. The various superiorities of the civilized world had a strong guiding and penetrating power on the thoughts of the people of the country.

So many people who were willing to borrow money just to smuggle out, didn't they just believe that "outside is good"?

"The summary stage of the debate is over, start the free debate."

The host announced the entry into the next link and started the free debate. The members of the Jingda debate team, who had performed gently and elegantly in the previous links, suddenly became as sharp and fierce as Jingwai, and even a bit extreme and angry.

"If we lose morality and only take law as the standard for human behavior, then a thief steals things in front of me, I give him a slap, he will ask me for compensation,

Even if there are eyewitnesses on the spot, I also need to cooperate with the relevant departments to investigate and collect evidence to prove that I hit him within the scope allowed by law,

And if this social moral constraint is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, after being beaten, the thief will only flee in a panic because he is afraid that everyone present will slap him."

"If this society loses morality, then everyone will study law, and means such as fraud and deception will emerge one after another. The speed of law improvement will never keep up with the speed of crime means update, and social resources will be wasted in large quantities..."

The Jingwai debate team was very well prepared, only appeared for a very short time of dullness, and then also began to counterattack.

"That's because our legal education is not enough. If everyone knows the law and abides by the law, then how can social resources be occupied? Just like many cases now, everyone knows who is right and who is wrong, and they solve it themselves!"

"Wrong!"

Li Ye stood up and said sternly: "What is law? Law is a rigorous regulation that pays attention to evidence, everything is based on evidence, everything is determined by law enforcement departments,

If it is just people's subjective recognition, everyone knows who is right and who is wrong, this is precisely not law, but morality,

Morality is not immutable. From five thousand years ago to the present, in every era, new moral models have been formed. Today's law may not be tomorrow's morality."

"But today's morality may not be suitable for this era,"

He Xue stood up and said righteously: "I won't talk about the moral dross of 'the monarch wants the minister to die, the minister has to die,' I will just ask the affirmative third debater, if your father beats you, what will you do?

Even if he is wrong, according to the moral model you advocate, can you fight back? Can you resort to law? What is the use of this moral model?"

"Heh~"

Li Ye smiled, stood up and said lightly: "If my father beats me, I will go find my grandfather and use moral means to solve moral problems."

"..."

"Hahahahahaha~"

"Hahahahaha~"

"I can't take it anymore, I really can't take it anymore. Can debate actually be like this?"

He Xue's face turned red, she stood up and said angrily: "Affirmative third debater, you are quibbling. Using morality to deal with morality is precisely proof of the irrationality of morality, which makes no sense at all."

"Do you think law is not?"

Yang Chen stood up suddenly and also said sharply: "In the Western civilized countries you advocate, using law to defeat law is the most common normal operation. Examples of demons using legal loopholes to escape trial are everywhere."

Yang Chen held up a piece of white paper with a name written on it—Marianne Bachmeier.

"In 1981, in Lübeck, West Germany, a villain with a history of rape killed the seven-year-old Marianne Bachmeier with extremely cruel means,

But the villain not only framed the seven-year-old child for inducing him to commit a crime, his lawyer also proved that the villain was innocent on the grounds that the villain had mental illness,

And what is even more unacceptable is that the villain's previous criminal record was the same behavior, and in the end, he was also acquitted."

"..."

The whole audience was silent. This kind of vicious incident was unheard of in the West, let alone in the mainland in '83.

"You are talking nonsense..."

He Xue said a sentence tremblingly.

Her debate team teammates woke up immediately, looking at her and stopping her strictly.

This kind of words should not be said by a debater, because this is very likely a trap thrown by the opponent.

But after Li Ye observed carefully, he discovered that this girl He Xue had an aggressive temperament. Once she was continuously angered, she was easy to lose control and reveal flaws.

Sure enough, Li Ye took a newspaper from under the table and handed it to Yang Chen.

This newspaper was brought by Li Ye from Hong Kong. The details of the case published on it were exactly a case that triggered a major discussion on the collision between morality and law in the West.

Yang Chen held up the newspaper righteously and said: "In order to refute the groundless accusations of the opponent's third debater against me, I have to present evidence."

"The demon used the loopholes of law, using mental abnormality as an excuse, trying to escape trial, and when he was about to succeed again, the seven-year-old girl's mother took out a pistol and fired eight shots in court to kill the criminal,

If you were that mother, would you be willing to follow the law and pay with your own life?"

"Oh~"

"Whoa, where did this happen?"

"Didn't you hear him say? It's in Lübeck, West Germany. Lübeck is a city..."

"Then what will happen to that mother? She avenged her daughter, but does she have to pay another life?"

"Sigh, in this way, just relying on law really has loopholes. The so-called Western civilization is not completely superior..."

The scene was full of opinions. Countless viewers were attracted by the case mentioned by Yang Chen, causing their consciousness to be secretly guided by the Jingda debate team without knowing it.

Yang Chen paused for a few seconds, and after the atmosphere was sufficiently set, he revealed the result.

"The lawyer of that girl's mother, Ms. Marianne Bachmeier, also used mental problems as an excuse, claiming that a poor mother saw the phantom of her daughter in court, and then accidentally killed the hateful criminal."

"The court adopted the lawyer's defense and only let Ms. Marianne Bachmeier stay in prison for a year and a half. This is using law to deal with law, but what do you think the judge's verdict was based on, law or morality?"

"..."

"Clap clap clap clap~"

The whole audience was silent again, even longer than the last time.

Then, applause erupted at the scene. I don't know if this applause was because Yang Chen's example debate was very exciting, or because they praised the mother who escaped legal sanctions for being smart enough.

Yang Chen sat down, enjoying the applause of the scene with peace of mind.

He and several teammates all felt that the Jingwai debate team was already unable to turn the tide, and that He Xue's error performance had already caused fatal consequences.

But what He Xue said next let them know what it means to take a sword to the side.

"The affirmative just gave an example to prove a very rare case, but the act of using morality as a standard to constrain human behavior has caused countless unfair tragedies."

He Xue looked at the countless viewers at the scene, especially the female viewers.

"Everyone knows that we proposed equality between men and women very early, and women can hold up half the sky, but it is precisely because of the so-called moral models that the shackles on our women have never been opened,

If you don't believe it, you can think about it, whose surname follows the mother's? Since men and women are equal, why should children follow the father's surname?"

"Also, when everyone is eating at home, do men always sit in the most honorable position, eating the best food, while women can't even sit at the table?

These are all moral constraints. In our new era, do we still have to let ourselves be bullied by these so-called moralities forever?

We should use a new standard to constrain ourselves, that is, the law that can give us equality for all, instead of morality full of rotten dross."

Li Ye was really shocked. He didn't expect He Xue to counterattack in such a situation.

Her point is—morality is not suitable to be the standard for constraining human behavior.

And her evidence is the "fist-fighter movement" that started from this time and developed vigorously for decades.

Look at all the female students at the scene. Just now they were giving a thumbs up to the mother who fired eight shots, but now they were completely pulled over by He Xue.

Why?

Because of interest.

You only need a few slogans of "equality for all" to change the conventions of thousands of years and get things they couldn't get for thousands of years.

Is this a ten-thousand-fold profit?

Otherwise, do you think this movement can develop vigorously for decades, and still not see the end at a glance?

Serving the old men hard, where is it as enjoyable as grabbing and riding on the neck with empty teeth?

However, just when Li Ye thought He Xue was just taking a sword to the side, He Xue's words made him understand what is called "those who calculate others will also be calculated by others."

He, Li Ye, is calculating He Xue's aggressive temperament, and He Xue is also calculating Li Ye.

"If you think these are not deep enough, then I ask everyone to think about it. Among the divorced men and women in our society now, who suffers more? And do these injuries all come from so-called morality? The result of five thousand years of civilization?"

"After two people break up because of different opinions and different outlooks on life, why is it always the man who despises the woman, and why are the neighbors spitting on the woman, while rarely investigating the man's responsibility?"

"I would like to ask the affirmative third debater, assuming your fiancée breaks up with you because of your different interests, would you use moral models as behavioral constraints to scold her, despise her, or even insult her?"

"..."

Wen Leyu, who was off stage, almost jumped over to slap someone.

【Who are you talking about? Are you talking about me?】

But Li Ye had already lightly spat out three words.

"Shameless."