"Original sin?"
Li Yao sniffed. He had never believed that there was any inherent sin. He was full of instinctive disgust for the word. (< <
Thinking quickly, Li Yao opened his mouth. "Was it a trick that the Sand Primitive natives came up with, claiming that it was highly unfair for the Martial Meritocrats natives to occupy such a prosperous and stable world, and that it was their inherent sin, so they had to compensate the Sand Primitive natives?"
Su Changfa smiled and shook his head. "If you think that way, you are underestimating both the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive natives. Also, if you think that way, the history will lose its universal significance. You can say that the destruction of the Martial Meritocrats Sector has nothing to do with the ideology of the Cultivators, except that the Cultivators there were rather stupid!
"If it were some more sober and sensible Cultivators who adopted a step-by-step approach to assimilate the Sand Primitive natives step by step, it might've been a different ending."
Li Yao was lost for words for a moment.
That was indeed what he was thinking. The Xing Yao Federation would never have been as naïve and stupid as the Martial Meritocrats natives when they absorbed the demon race.
"No. The history that I'm going to tell you is far more complicated than that. The destruction of the Martial Meritocrats civilization was not caused by their idiotic immigration policy at all. The best we can say is that the Sand Primitive natives served as a 'trigger'!
"The so-called original sin theory is not used to explain the contradiction between the Martial Meritocrats natives and the Sand Primitive natives but the contradiction between the Cultivators and the ordinary people. It is not the Martial Meritocrats natives who have 'original sin' but the Cultivators!"
"What?"
Li Yao was dazed. He could not help but touch his cheek and ask in disbelief, "What are the inherent sins of the Cultivators?"
"Of course they are!"
Su Chang said thoughtfully, "Including the Martial Meritocrats civilization, most of the civilizations of Cultivators hold the belief that natural rights are inviolable and that everybody is equal regardless of whether they are Cultivators or ordinary people. However, a very absurd conclusion can be drawn from such a belief, which is that the Cultivators and the ordinary people are inherently unequal!" "That's right.
"Yes. The law can protect the legal rights and political position of the ordinary people. It is even possible to pretend that the ordinary people boast the same strength as the Cultivators by one person, one vote!
"However, this is nothing but self-deception!"
"Once the spiritual root is awakened, the cultivator will have speed, strength, stamina, intelligence, and even sharper vision, hearing, touch, and so on that are far above that of ordinary people!"
"The advantages of the human body are something that ordinary people can't approach no matter how hard they train!"
"With such advantages, the Cultivators can leave the ordinary people far behind in any competitive field. They can occupy all the jobs that require high-level intelligence, stamina, speed, strength, and even soul strength. They can become heroes in public and receive the cheers and reverence of the public!
"As long as a Cultivator appears in a certain field, it means that the rest of the ordinary people, even if they are the ordinary people whose every cell is exploding, will not have any chance to compete at all. They can only surrender obediently and watch the Cultivators demonstrate their remarkable skills while doing nothing!"
"In short, this world is the stage of the cultivators. Ordinary people are at most the audience below the stage. They are only responsible for applauding and cheering!"
"They don't deserve or have the ability to step onto the stage and spread their brilliance!"
"Fellow Cultivator Li, is such inequality not the original sin of the cultivators?"
Su Chang's smile was more and more hideous, but his tone was calmer and calmer, which gave Li Yao a creepy and sweaty feeling!
"More importantly, such inequality not only means that the ordinary people cannot compete with the Cultivators in any field, it also means that the ordinary people cannot guarantee the safety of their own lives and properties. Everything is in the hands of the Cultivators!
"The ordinary people have to accept the fact that their peaceful and happy life is only based on the kindness, mercy, and charity of the cultivators!
"Everything is a tower in the wind and a pavilion in the sky, maintained by the illusory 'morals' of the cultivators!
"Today, the cultivators have decided to be chivalrous, help the weak, and protect the ordinary people. That's why the ordinary people can live such a good life!
"However, what if the cultivators change tomorrow?
"What if the cultivators, for various reasons, or for no reason at all, just because they are in a bad mood, decide not to protect the ordinary people but to live in the opposite way?
"By then, the cultivators will be able to kill the ordinary people, take away their properties, enslave their wives and daughters, and treat their children and grandchildren as slaves!"
Li Yao blurted out, "The cultivators won't do that!"
Hardly had he said the words when cold sweat leaked out of his heart.
Su Chang looked at him thoughtfully and smiled. "The key is not whether or not the cultivators will do that, but whether or not they can do it! It's obvious that they can! "
"The cultivators can hurt the ordinary people freely, but the ordinary people cannot hurt the cultivators. Therefore, the cultivators can only pray that the cultivators abide by the social rules, which are 'morals'. This is the most critical problem!
"As I said just now, Fellow Cultivator Li, 'morals' are the most unreliable thing in the world. As productivity and social relations change, morals will change quickly, too!
"Besides, there are all kinds of accidents!
"Let's take you as the simplest example. Fellow Cultivator Li, I believe that you must've been a standard Cultivator in the past. Chances are that you did a lot of good things and protected a lot of ordinary people, didn't you?"
Li Yao's eyelids were twitching violently. Pretending that he was deeply troubled, he nodded his head softly.
Su Chang's wrinkled face beamed out a smile that resembled that of a devil. "However, after the 'space crash', after all the boundaries were crossed, you have changed. Completely changed!
"Even if the ordinary people can trust you in the past wholeheartedly, can they trust you in the present?
"If you hadn't run into us but returned to the Flying Star Sector by accident, can you guarantee that you would still treat the ordinary people as you did in the past instead of viewing them as pieces of delicious meat?
"If you hurt an ordinary person … or even his entire family, driven by certain weird instincts, would he be able to resist you?"
Li Yao's face was pale. He made the gesture of retching, lost for words.
Su Chang said coldly, "Nobody can stand that their fate is in the hands of other people's kindness and mercy! Cultivators have the ability to hurt ordinary people freely without being hurt by them. That is their original sin, the greatest sin!
"The solutions to the two original sins are very simple, too!
"Firstly, the tax rate of Cultivators will be raised. Their rights will be restricted. Their work, education, political participation, and other fields will be tilted in favor of the ordinary people.
"Secondly, since Cultivators are so dangerous and are all ferocious beasts in human form, they must be closely monitored. Their identity, capability, level, and daily whereabouts must be known by the public. Also, when necessary, even if there is no evidence, the Cultivators can be physically restrained.
"Thirdly, the 'Committee of Equal Human Beings' will be established. It will investigate all the incidents in the past hundred years where Cultivators abused their abilities and competed with the ordinary people in an unfair way. The magical equipment that can restrict the Cultivators' abilities will be developed to ensure that the ordinary people have the ability to hurt the Cultivators, too!
"Absolute power means absolute corruption. Right now, the Cultivators boast 'absolute power'. It is only a matter of time before they are corrupted! Only when everybody has the ability to hurt each other will the balance of power and ensure the stability of the alliance!
"That is the main point of the original sin theory.
"Soon after the theory emerged from the dark abyss, it swept across the entire Alliance of Martial Meritocrats like a tide and won the support of most ordinary people!"
"How is it possible?"
Li Yao's eyebrows were like two daggers that were about to stand up. "The original sin theory may be a trick of the Sand Primitive natives, and it is not strange that the Sand Primitive citizens in the alliance support it. But aren't more than half of the citizens of the Martial Meritocrats Sector? Why are they supporting such absurd theories, too?"
"You find the original sin theory absurd because you are a Cultivator yourself. Naturally, you are on the Cultivators' side!"
Su Chang said coldly. "If you are an ordinary person who cannot even catch a chicken, you will not find it absurd at all. Instead, you will feel enlightened and enlightened!
"Put yourself in my shoes, Fellow Cultivator Li. Use your computational ability. Imagine that you are an ordinary person. When you are faced with the high and mighty, omnipotent Cultivators, what are your thoughts in the deepest part of your heart?"
Su Chang put his cold arm on Li Yao's shoulder and leaned close to his ear. His voice sounded like a breeze from the deepest level of hell. "When you see that they are taller, faster, stronger, smarter, more handsome, and have a higher social position and the ability to realize your self-worth than you, most importantly of all, you will never be able to catch up with them in your entire life!
"As an ordinary person, don't you feel a little … jealous?
"But when you see that a Cultivator can blow up a giant rock with one punch and kick away a demon beast weighing more than ten tons, will you not be able to help yourself from imagining what it feels like when such punches and kicks land on your body?"
"As an ordinary person, don't you feel a little … scared?
"When you see the marvelous lives of the Cultivators on the stage, and you look back at your boring, lackluster life in the auditorium, won't you feel a little … desperate about your weakness, ignorance, incompetence, and ugliness?
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