Confucius said: Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. It means that if you don't like something, don't impose it on others. Modern people think about it, this sentence is wrong. If you don't like making progress, don't you allow others to like it? If you don't like science, don't allow others to like it? Therefore, modern people changed Confucius' words to: Do not do to others what you don't want others to do to you. You can think about it, this sentence is right. Obviously wrong. Don't you want to kill and set fire? Don't you want to commit suicide, so you force others to commit suicide? Modern people like to say "new maxims", but the "maxims" of "new sayings" are wrong. Isn't that ridiculous? Back to what I said just now, we can think about how to change this sentence of Confucius. It seems unrealistic to change it to "Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you". What's the point of living if a person thinks about whether to impose things he doesn't like on others all day? We can consider how to change it. However, after thinking about it, I still don't know how to change it (at least I don't know) In this case, don't restore the "true colors" of the "motto"
Gorky once said: Books are the ladder of human progress. Gorky's "book" originally refers to healthy and beneficial books. Modern people insist on adding Gorky's "book" to unhealthy books. So they made an excuse. They will say: books are not necessarily the ladder of human progress. This is obviously finding fault with an egg.
"Anything is possible" is a well-known maxim. Some people will say: if a person thinks that stones can be boiled into eggs, isn't that ridiculous? This is also finding fault with the egg. I think there must be some basis for the previous saying. The predecessors are not stupid enough to ignore reality. Otherwise, this sentence was criticized as soon as it was said, and it will never be passed down.
Philosophically, things always have two sides. Therefore, we don't need to ask the aphorism to be completely correct. Really want to get to the bottom of it, the world is in chaos. There is a saying: seeing is believing, but listening is empty. Then what do people do by reading newspapers and news every day? There is a popular saying now: thank those who have hurt themselves. Having said that, "the grace of dripping water should be embraced by the spring." Then shouldn't we especially thank Hitler, especially the number one fascist criminal in Japan? So how to solve this problem? All these maxims have been abolished. This is not realistic. Proverbs can be said to be the essence of China culture. Without these proverbs, China culture would be much worse. To sum up, it is better to use the motto as it is.
Motto is like a mottled jade, but it can't "take its essence and discard its dross" like jade, otherwise it will become a fallacy that reverses right and wrong.