Bone Tomahawk (2015) tells the story of a doctor's wife who was taken away one night after an attack in a small town in the western United States. Local Indians say that from the traces, it was the work of someone from a nearby cannibal tribe. So the sheriff and the doctor and others went to the rescue. They found the cannibal tribe and killed many people, found in the cave a person who had been split in half, and a pregnant woman whose eyes were blinded by nails—the cannibal tribe itself had no women, and this pregnant woman may have been stolen, their fertility tool. After killing and injuring many people, the group found the doctor's wife and returned to the town.
This relatively niche Western raises the question: Is there an absolute advantage or disadvantage to culture? Personally, I think that within a certain range it is possible to have its own beauty, but in a larger scope there are absolute advantages and disadvantages. And first of all, to answer the question posed by Mencius: what is different from the beast? Many phenomena cannot be excused by cultural diversity.
For a long time, we in the Chinese nation did not use race in the biological sense to define "Yixia", but used etiquette and norms. After the establishment of the principle of ethics, only people become human. The so-called barbarians, though human in the biological sense, are inferior and incomplete. On the one hand, we must resolutely oppose and condemn the genocides and cleansing that have occurred in history; on the other hand, it may be more important to prevent ourselves from degenerating into inferior human beings at any time. Perhaps only when everyone often asks: The reason why I am different from the beast is that we can keep the bottom line of civilization.
So, assuming you're the sheriff in Tomahawk Bones, what would you do with the cannibal tribe?
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