"When all norms and taboos do not exist, how far are you from evil?" This is a sentence from the poster of the horror film Hollow Man. When a transparent person faces the opaque world, the desire to sleep inside begins to wake up, so there is the evil invisible man and this thriller.

The real anxiety does not come from the terrible plot in the film, but from my interrogation of myself, "When there are no rules, will you do bad things?" My answer is: I will! This is a latent desire from human nature. Maybe everyone outside has evil in his heart. Once the shackles of imprisoning evil are released, there will be many atrocities in human history.

In my opinion, the fundamental sign of human civilization is to control desire, which is also a sign that human beings get rid of barbarism. The initial suppression of desire comes from morality, which is an idea accumulated by human long-term social activities and knows what to do and what not to do. This is the central way of Confucianism in ancient China, but the ancients said: No virtue is indispensable, and only virtue is dangerous. In other words, morality without coercion is pale and powerless. From this point of view, "ruling the country according to law" advocated by legalists is the way to govern society, and the so-called "ruling the country by virtue" by Confucianism is only a utopian ideal.

We can't restrain the derivation and flow of desire, but we can restrain the behavior of desire, which is based on moral rules. Our evil thoughts may have subverted a certain morality for thousands of times, but the punitive rules made it impossible to produce evil thoughts, helped the moral tree, and thus formed a legal society. It can be said that "human nature is evil, but people are always good."

Morality is the basic construction of rules, but violating morality does not violate rules, Nathaniel? Wakefield in Hawthorne's works is such a figure, perhaps out of the desire for vagrancy. He ran away from home one day and stayed in a hotel one block away from home for twenty years. This tramp who ran away from home is more noticeable, and readers can't help but measure his distance from social ethics. He violated morality and deviated from the standard, but we can't say that he has any deviant behavior. The experienced Hawthorne solved the problem for us. Finally, he wrote: "In a seemingly chaotic world, each of us is placed in a certain position in a standardized way. Once we leave this position, we will be abandoned by this world forever. " In fact, this Wakefield will be abandoned by the world. Here, wakefield violated another rule, a social law.

As Mr. Spencer said to holden in Good Girl, "Life is a ball game, but we must abide by every rule." Yes, we live in this society. To participate in such "ball games", you must abide by the so-called "rules".

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