Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2525 Choice
So Xia Duo concluded: "Thus we can think that, unless it is the kind of society that is still struggling on the edge of survival, maintaining slavery will always do more harm than good."

"I understand!" Niya suddenly exclaimed.

"What do you unserstand?"

Under Xia Duo's expectant gaze, Niya gave an answer that surprised him, "I understand the reason you said you chose this path from the perspective of the development of the times, because you think the superiority of this path is better than that of others." any other path that can be found in the past and in the future!"

"Continue—" Xia Duo signaled Niya to continue.

Encouraged by Xia Duo, Niya continued the thought experiment just now and continued:
"Slaves have no freedom, let alone respect, so give them freedom, give them respect, and guarantee all their rights, so that they are no lower than anyone in the same society!

"In this case, there is only one purpose for them to live—to live better for themselves, and this is just the minimum, he can do whatever he wants.

"This kind of inner-driven action is undoubtedly the most efficient."

But when it came to the end, Niya hesitated, "But where is this society where everyone is equal and everyone can do whatever they want? Everyone has their own ideas. How do you reconcile those different ideas?"

"What you are worried about is actually a decision-making issue. In my opinion, this is not a difficult problem. It can be summed up in two principles-whoever has reason to listen to others, and the minority obeys the majority."

Of course, it is not so easy to implement the two principles, which involve the most fundamental system design and subsequent maintenance and improvement of a society.

There is a saying in Xia Duo’s hometown, “It’s easy to start a business but hard to keep it.” It can roughly describe this process. In fact, starting a business is not easy, and keeping a business is even more difficult.

Regarding Xia Duo's answer, Niya thought for a moment and nodded, but then raised her doubts again: "But is such a society really possible? No oppression? Everyone is equal?"

"Of course it is difficult, but I believe it is possible to achieve. And as an ideal, or a long-term goal, if it can be easily achieved, is it considered an ideal or a long-term goal?"

To be honest, if Xia Duo only had a lifespan of a hundred years, he would definitely not choose this path that almost confronts the whole world, especially in the magical world where individual strengths and weaknesses can easily widen the gap, such a path is almost impossible. possible.

But he has a long enough lifespan, which makes him firm in his desire to see higher-level scenery!This is actually the selfishness he explained to Niya just now.

But his selfishness does not violate morality or go against the development trend of the times. He thinks there is nothing wrong with such selfishness.

Hearing Xia Duo's final answer, Niya suddenly felt unreal. It turns out that Xia Duo is not absolutely confident about such a future!

At this moment, she understood the truest thoughts in her heart——Xia Duo has been making rapid progress all along, which made her hard to keep up with the thought of gain and loss.

But if there is a goal that is great enough and long-term enough that even Xia Duo is not sure whether it can be achieved, then the two of them don't care about their priority. Facing such a goal, the two of them will always move forward hand in hand side by side.

Moreover, this goal is not entirely based on belief, but to a certain extent, it is also based on a rational choice. After thinking about this problem, Niya felt much more relaxed.

She originally wanted to say something, but suddenly she didn't want to say anything. There is still a long way to go, and she wants to slowly understand and experience by herself.

At this moment, Niya even felt that children were not that important anymore, of course they still had to be, so that at least one more future fellow traveler could be added.

Xia Duo saw that Niya seemed to have realized something, so he didn't say anything more. In fact, he still had something to say, that is-if it is not for the ultimate goal, then just liberating slaves or even improving the treatment of the people does not mean As the oppression decreases, it may even increase.

After all, think about it from another angle, if there is no profit, which slave owner is willing to release the slave who was originally under his own control?

Using the theory of my hometown to explain it, it is roughly that as long as it is not communism, exploitation still exists, and the more productive forces are developed, the more thorough the exploitation will be.

The so-called "more thorough" means that the ratio of personal income to output will become lower and lower with the increase of productivity!
The reason why I don't say this is mainly because Xia Duo is worried that Niya will be tempted by short-term (relative to the ultimate goal) personal interests, and thus go astray.

After all, the ultimate goal seems so far away, even Xia Duo himself will inevitably be tempted, so what he thinks is to use a little visible progress in future practice to make Nya firm in her confidence in the ultimate goal.

Of course he himself is the same, he may encounter something in the future that will cause his heart to be broken, but at least so far he still believes that the goal is superior and it is possible to achieve it.

As long as there are no outrageous changes in the future, he believes that he can also unswervingly walk down this road.

Of course, that road is not just about giving preferential treatment to the people. It would be too narrow to think so. It is essentially a more efficient way of organizing and utilizing resources, regardless of good or evil. Cognitive, the cost of using goodness is lower.

But in the magical world, that may not be the case. At least Xia Duo himself thought of more than one way to completely control life from the body to the soul. Although he is not sure where the upper limit of such means can be controlled, there are always more. clever means.

Even on the earth, there are similar methods, and the cost may not be very high. It is difficult to achieve it based on the technical level when Xia Duo left, but it is theoretically possible. As long as it is possible, the cost is actually not problem.

It's just that Xia Duo is not a person full of desires, and he also agrees with morality and knows self-restraint, so he chooses the good side and chooses to respect each individual's self, instead of ignoring each individual's self and making his own to impose will on others.

Of course, respecting others does not mean completely non-interference and non-influence on others. Good ideas need to be shared. If you completely ignore others, or deliberately keep yourself "invisible", then what is the difference between this world and the world without him?
Whether it affects or interferes is not the key, as long as he exists in this world, he will influence the outside world all the time, the key is——

Whether to give others the power to choose.

To a certain extent, this is also the easiest way to distinguish between orthodox and cults. It depends on whether you are forced to join a religion. As long as you are forced to join a religion, no matter how good the teachings are, they are all cults.

(End of this chapter)