Chapter 1266: 1266
"This is pure sophistry!" the mental devil countered . "Killing ten million and killing ten billion are in a chain of causality . It's black and white! It is because of your petty kindness and your hypocrisy that you are unwilling to shoulder the blame of 'killing ten billion'! That's why the ten billion people were killed! It's entirely different from the example you put forward!"
"How are they not different?" Li Yao asked back coldly . "For example, if a policeman sees a fully-armed criminal who has already raised his gun, he has no time to activate his own gun, and he does not have a second solution except to pick up an innocent little girl and throw her toward the criminal's gun so that he will have time to tame the criminal!
"But because he doesn't do that, because he doesn't toss the innocent little girl over, will the policeman be to blame for everybody that the criminal kills?
"If you think that I'm merely arguing irrationally, how about the next example?
"Some fanatic zealots have captured a hundred innocent elementary school students as hostages . They demand the authorities to hand over one—yes, only one—adult who has 'sullied' their religion!
"If the authorities do not hand over the adult, they will kill the hundred innocent children!
"But in the end, if the authorities insist on not handing over the adult, and the fanatic zealots do kill the children, are the children's deaths the authorities' fault?
"The choice between the life of an adult and the lives of a hundred children are in a 'chain of causality' anyway, right? If the adult dies, the children will be spared . If the adult doesn't, the children will certainly be killed . This is what you call 'black and white', right?
"Then, just because of that, the authorities who are unwilling to concede are murderers, are they?
"Damn you! What kind of bullsh*t logic is that?
"What kills the victims are the fire, the criminal, and the fanatic zealots, not the firefighter, the policeman, and the authorities!
"Therefore, even if I didn't choose to detonate Karan, I was simply making a choice that any firefighter, policeman, and government with a normally-functioning head would make . If the defense line collapsed later, and ten billion people or even more were killed, it would be the invaders from the Covenant Alliance that killed them, not me, who had been trying to resist the enemy with all I could!
"If I were truly in Wuying Qi's place, no matter how harsh the environment I was in was, I would not cross the line . I would fight like a real Cultivator . If I failed, I would retreat, regroup, and continue fighting! If countless ordinary people were killed in the war during the process, I would blame the Covenant Alliance for all the casualties and settle the scores with a hundred times more interest later! If I couldn't achieve that, the only reason would be that I was killed in battle on my way!
"I believe that, other than the Immortal Cultivators with ill intentions and the few people who were bewildered by them, anybody who had basic intelligence and thinking abilities would know who was to blame for the disaster and who the real murderer was!"
The mental devil sneered while scratching its face .
Taking a long breath, Li Yao declared resolutely, "There's no need to cover your fear with a cold smile . Do you know the biggest problem of your so-called choice?
"The biggest problem is that lives are immeasurable and invaluable! For something that is already infinitely great, the result will be the same even if you multiply it by a thousand!
"The lives of two people combined are not necessarily more important that the life of one person . The life of a big shot who is smart, handsome, and born in a rich family is not more valuable than the life of a little guy who is born in a poor family living a mundane life!
"The 8 . 2 million innocent victims on Karan were as valuable as the ten billion civilians in the rear!
"If you deny that, today, you can 'sacrifice' 8 . 2 million people for ten billion; tomorrow, you can sacrifice ten billion for a hundred billion; the day after tomorrow, you can sacrifice another hundred billion for a hundred billion plus one . After all, the latter are always a bit more valuable than the former!
"As a result, the foundation of society will be gone . Eventually, far more people than 8 . 2 million or even ten billion will be killed!"
"Stop your alarmism there!" the mental devil sneered . "Your jibber-jabber is just your ungrounded presumption . I don't believe any of it!"
"You don't?" Li Yao put on a cold smile, too . "I'm disappointed . I'm truly disappointed! You are my clone anyway . Our intelligence should be similar despite our different stances, shouldn't it? Why is your wisdom declining so fast? It is also a landslide! Can't you even see through Su Changfa's fancy talk?
"Is it possible that one will become dumber when one becomes an Immortal Cultivator?
"Having such an idiotic clone like you… I feel sorry for myself!"
"What did you say?" The mental devil burst into fury and climbed to the top of Ou Yezi's memory tree like a monkey, raging and roaring . "Let's get everything through! What fancy talks have I not seen through? You are not going to get away with it if you don't explain it to me!"
"It's simple," Li Yao said calmly . "Su Changfa said that by detonating Karan and sacrificing 8 . 2 million people, Wuying Qi rescued ten billion people, which sounds like a fair deal, doesn't it?"
The mental devil nodded its head hard . "It is doubtlessly a fair deal!"
No Comments Yet
Post a new comment
Register or Login