"The Cultivators' so-called 'protection of the ordinary people' is no different from the extreme animal protectors' love for cats and dogs. It is not because they are more righteous, kinder, or more merciful than other people, but because of their selfishness."
Li Yao stammered, "Selfishness? What selfishness? "
"In the Imperium of True Human Beings, there is a renowned master of sociology and psychology named 'Ma Tianluo'. Master Ma proposed the five-level ladder theory. He pointed out that all the needs that a person must fulfill for their entire life can be divided into five levels, namely, physiological needs, safety needs, emotional needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs," Tang Qianhe explained.
"The physiological needs and the safety needs are easy to understand. It is the instincts of all animals to be fed, clothed, and protected from external enemies!
"Emotional needs are also very easy to understand. Humans are a social race. A person always desires to be immersed in the package of family, friendship, love, and other emotions. As the saying goes, the seven emotions and six desires are difficult to avoid even for a Golden Immortal."
"The need for respect, if we get to the bottom of it, is the desire to occupy a certain position in society and be acknowledged, respected, and even worshipped by other people! When the needs are satisfied, one will be filled with confidence and feel the 'value' of their existence!
"The need for self-actualization is the need of the highest level. It refers to the realization of one's dreams, ambitions, and beliefs, the stimulation of one's potential, and the implementation of one's belief!
"It's easy to understand what the Cultivators are doing with Master Ma's' Demand Theory of the Five Stairs'."
"Protecting the ordinary people can first satisfy the emotional needs of the Cultivators. Second, they can be respected and worshipped by the public. Third, their beliefs can be carried out and their beliefs can be broadened! In other words, all three of the more advanced requirements in the 'Five Steps Requirement Theory' have been satisfied! "
"Getting to the bottom of it, the Cultivators protect the ordinary people and are cheered and worshipped by the ordinary people. It is the same logic as an ordinary person raising a pet dog, building a kennel for it, buying dog food for it, or even calling it a member of the family in order to win its affection.
"Are they particularly fond of small animals? Of course not. They are merely satisfying their empty hearts!
"Otherwise, why are there so many people raising cats and dogs in the world, but so few people raising cockroaches and toads? To put it bluntly, cats and dogs are cute and can give ordinary people a sense of spiritual satisfaction. Therefore, ordinary people raise cats and dogs. Ordinary people can also give cultivators a sense of spiritual satisfaction. They are a kind of high-level pet. Therefore, cultivators protect ordinary people! "
"Then, then …"
For a moment, Li Yao didn't know how to refute this strange theory.
Besides, he did not dare to show too much resistance in case the three Immortal Cultivators grew suspicious. He could only follow Tang Qianhe's suggestion. "Then, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing, does it?"
"Of course, it's your personal freedom to spoil your pet behind closed doors. There's nothing wrong with that!"
Tang Qianhe sniffed. With both disdain and disgust on her face, she said, "It's a pity that the Cultivators, like the extreme animal protectionists, like to regard the fulfillment of their selfish desires as the so-called morality. They consider their likes and dislikes as the universal truth. They even interfere with other people's very normal behaviors!
"The resources in space are limited. Keeping ordinary people as pets will consume much more resources than keeping cats and dogs as pets. Also, the brutality of ordinary people is much higher than that of cats and dogs. One moment of carelessness, and they may bite you back at any moment!"
"Cultivators are all shortsighted and extremely selfish guys. Acting on their selfishness and their instincts, they only see that the ordinary people in front of them right now are pitiful and must be protected at any cost in order to satisfy their compassion. Little do they know that such actions will lead to long-term damage and the total collapse of the civilization of mankind in the end!"
Li Yao frowned. "What kind of damage?"
Tang Qianhe said solemnly, "The civilization of mankind, just like the ecosystem of nature, is in fact the most solid and the most vulnerable thing! It is solid because it has certain natural rules that allow it to adjust and balance itself. It can also purge and evolve itself under the restraint of the seemingly cruel rules. It is fragile because, once human beings, as the wisest of all creatures, grasp the ability to modify certain rules and modify them under the drive of their self-righteous compassion, the collapse of the civilization will almost be inevitable!
"Fellow Cultivator Li, you've heard of 'ecological balance' before, haven't you?"
Li Yao nodded.
"The ecosystem of nature is a very balanced and perfect work of art. Imagine a prairie where a few jackals, a lot of rabbits, and a lot of green grass make up a simple ecosystem.
"The rabbits eat the grass, and the jackals eat the rabbits.
"The rabbits look very cute and make you feel pity for them.
"The jackals, on the other hand, look hideous and brutal. The scenes when they hunt the rabbits can be bloody!
"At first glance, it is easy to define the rabbits as' good 'and the jackals as' bad '!
"One day, some omnipotent people come to the prairie. Seeing the bloody scenes of the jackals hunting the rabbits and the cute pictures of the rabbits rubbing against their arms, they suddenly have the idea to help the weak. They kill all the jackals and wolves, leaving only the furry, meaty, docile, and cute rabbits.
"If I may ask, will the prairie become a paradise on earth?"
"Of course not!
"In less than a year, the rabbits, who are highly fertile and good at destroying the roots of the plants, will completely destroy the prairie. The rabbits who lose their food source will die in large batches and go extinct, too!
"Do you understand now?
"In the ecosystem, the seemingly brutal jackals and wolves are the protectors of the grass, the rabbits, and the entire nature. The seemingly warm-hearted guys who help the weak are out-and-out devils who are enslaved by their self-inflated morals!
"Maybe they are truly doing it out of kindness. Maybe they have fought the jackals and wolves for a long time while protecting the rabbits, paying countless blood and sacrifices …
"But so what? It cannot change the fact that the entire ecosystem will be completely destroyed by their 'kindness'! "
Li Yao's head was humming nonstop.
The Immortal Cultivators' style of speech had been polished for a thousand years. Even if they were being unreasonable, they would at least sound reasonable and justified.
Tang Qianhe took a deep breath. With sacred brilliance all over her face, she said proudly, "The civilization of mankind, like the balance of ecosystems, has its own internal logic of operation and development.
"Natural selection is the survival of the fittest. Only by maintaining a certain degree of cruel competition can we ensure that the excellent genes will receive the most abundant resources and be passed down generation after generation. As for the inferior genes, they will slowly be eliminated so that the resources will not be wasted and the environment will not be polluted!"
"It is like the metabolism of the civilization of mankind. It is a very normal and reasonable process. Survival of the fittest!
"However, as the civilization of mankind developed, new technologies and techniques emerged one after another. It seemed that we had defeated nature and could ignore rules and logic now! Many people gradually grew arrogant. Selfishness replaced rationality, and they tried to enforce justice on behalf of the heavens. Their representatives were the modern Cultivators!
"The modern Cultivators conquered the enemies of the civilization of mankind one after another, creating a stable world without internal and external problems. They also developed the advanced technology of spiritual energy, popularizing all kinds of magical equipment and techniques on a large scale. The living environment of the ordinary people was greatly improved, and the average lifespan was multiplied. As a result, the population of the ordinary people exploded like a volcano, and the inferior genes that should've been eliminated by the harsh environment were passed on, too!
"It is like the rabbits that have expanded infinitely on the prairie after losing their natural enemy, the jackals and wolves!
"Such a world may look beautiful, but it is a delicate and fragile greenhouse built by humans. It is impossible for it to last long.
"As long as the number of ordinary people reaches a tipping point, their infinite thirst for resources will eventually overwhelm the entire world, and the Cultivators who are soaked in their inferior genes will lose their drive to make progress, too. Eventually, they will be doomed forever. The fire of the civilization of mankind in this world will be completely extinguished, like a wasteland that has been gnawed by rabbits!"
"Don't think that I'm just being alarmist. In the history of the expansion of the Imperium of True Human Beings, we have discovered a lot of worlds of Cultivators that had self-destructed. It was exactly because we saw the misery of those worlds and learned their lessons that we were encouraged to walk further and further on the true path of immortality!
"After we return to the base, maybe I can ask Master Su to show you how those worlds of Cultivators were destroyed. You will understand everything then!
"All in all, no matter how harmonious, beautiful, and prosperous a world of Cultivators looks, and no matter how harmonious and united the relationship between the Cultivators and the ordinary people is, it is all bought at the cost of the future and at the expense of the future generations. It is the last brilliance before the end of the civilization!
"For people like you who do not know the truth and have been brainwashed by the Cultivators for decades, some of the doings of the Immortal Cultivators may seem cruel, cruel, and even tyrannical at first glance!
"However, it is just like how jackals and wolves prey on rabbits. What seems brutal is actually necessary for the ecological balance. It is greatly beneficial for the prairie and even for the long-term continuation of the species of 'rabbits'!"
Li Yao took a deep, deep breath.
He felt that he had been tricked by Tang Qianhe.
Of course, Tang Qianhe did not have such theoretical expertise. What she said must have been carefully crafted by the theoretical masters of the Immortal Cultivators over hundreds of years and inculcated into all the citizens of the Imperium since childhood.
Li Yao did not want to continue fighting the enemy in the theoretical battlefield when he was unprepared. Pretending that he was greatly enlightened, he nodded and changed the topic. "I — I think I understand it now! However, what if … what I eat is not the ordinary people but the Immortal Cultivators? "
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