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From good to ascend, from evil to collapse.
From these four simple words alone, you can feel the difficulty of adhering to kindness.
What exactly is goodness? What is evil? It may be easy to evaluate the right and wrong of a person or a thing, but it is difficult to accurately define good and evil. Kindness literally means kindness of heart, quality of purity and other qualities. Specific to life, it may be people and things that help others and are willing to be charitable.
So what is evil? Evil is for its own benefit at the expense of harming others, and people or things that cause harm to others in society will be accused of evil.
When we were young, our understanding of good and evil was always very simple, as if many things could easily distinguish between right and wrong, but when we grew up, we found that good and evil are often intertwined, many people and many things seem to be unable to distinguish between right and wrong, and the understanding of good and evil has become more complicated after growing up.
In the past, film and television dramas always liked to face people in the drama, and the good and the evil were clearly distinguished from the dress. But with the development of society, many film and television dramas have created one character after another that cannot be defined by good and evil, which can't help but let us take our eyes back to reality, what is good and evil?
From good to ascend, from evil to collapse. Kindness is a commendable virtue, but it is contrary to human nature, which is inherently evil in nature—from the nature of animals to prey on the weak.
Even many people's evil deeds are to provide for good deeds. The blackening of Xu Wenbiao in "Genesis" makes people feel sad to tears. He's not a good man!
He grew up poor but excellent in character and learning, and finally with his own ability to enter the architecture school, become an excellent architect, although he was born poor, but he firmly believes in his own creed, he wants to make money by his own ability, he wants to be a kind person, at least not to hurt others.
But life forced him to a dead end, his mother and brother were kidnapped, waiting for him to take money to save his life, his good friend Ye Rongtian took the opportunity to pull him into the gang to corrupt him, but Xu Wenbiao still insisted on his original intention even in the face of such a difficult moment, he himself tried to borrow a ransom to save his favorite mother, and as a result, he met a taxi driver halfway to rob him of life-saving money, struggling between good and evil until the tired Xu Wenbiao was broken in his heart at this time, and the driver's robbery completely broke xu Wenbiao's last defense line, and he was angry. He stabbed the driver to death in a fit of rage, not just the driver, but the greater evils he had witnessed that were powerless to change.
At that moment, his belief in life completely collapsed. He watched his once good brother Ye Rongtian step on the minefield and constantly climb up, he watched his most respected tutor even engage in black box operations, all the unbearable and dirty were cloaked in gorgeous cloaks beckoning to him, with his wisdom, as long as he joined them, he could soar, but Xu Wenbiao stubbornly adhered to his original intention, he wanted to be a law-abiding person, and he resolutely refused the high returns that Ye Rongtian threw over again and again, but fate did not let him go, and his mother's safety was his bottom line Once his life-saving money was robbed, if his mother had an accident, Xu Wenbiao's life would have no fulcrum, Xu Wenbiao hated all this, he stabbed the robbery driver several times, and from that moment on, the once kind Xu Wenbiao had died.
His killing of the driver is still worthy of sympathy, but the fact that Xu Wenbiao later killed Ma Zhiqiang's parents is no longer worthy of sympathy. But if we say that Xu Wenbiao is a bad person because of this, such an evaluation seems too one-sided.
After all, he was once such a righteous and kind person, and he was such a filial son, his evil was driven by fate, he killed Ma Zhiqiang and his wife, he did not want others to know his evil side, he did not want, he did not want to become an evil person until he died, but he became an unforgivable evil person.
Xu Wenbiao is a more complex person, maybe such a person only exists on TV, but in fact, Xu Wenbiao is just an amplification of the humanity of ordinary people, and we in life are very Xu Wenbiao a lot of times.
Otherwise, how could we have so much sympathy for Xu Wenbiao? Sympathy often arises from empathy, and empathy is often a psychology that resonates strongly with the people in the play under the torture of alone. That is to say, if we encounter xu Wenbiao's experience, we may also make the same choice as him.
His heart to save his mother and brother is good, but when faced with the gangsters who want to steal his life-saving money, he defends his goodness with evil, which is a trick on him by fate.
"Genesis" was broadcast in 1998, and when I first watched the show, I was very young, and at that time I thought Xu Wenbiao was a bad person, but when I re-brushed the show again after half a lifetime, I didn't know how to define good and evil for a while.
In short, goodness is not harming others, not violating others, while evil is infringing on the interests or lives of others. Often it is easy to learn the bad and difficult to learn well, because doing evil is often frightening, and evil deeds can often break through obstacles and obtain more benefits earlier, so many people like to wander between good and evil, test back and forth, and form a set of their survival system, they care not about the original intention of good and evil, they care about how much benefit good and evil can bring them.
Life is not black and white, good and evil are always intertwined and cannot be divided into two, one or the other, our troubles are often actually a contest between good and evil. And often good people are more obedient to social rules, but those who always like to break through the rules and destroy the system can always make a fuss.
It is too difficult for people to insist on goodness all their lives, but it is very easy to do evil if they want to do evil, just like Xu Wenbiao's blackening, like a mountain cracking, using sin after sin to cover up the original sin. From goodness sometimes it must affect the interests of others, no one wants to listen to the big truths of those who care about you, and people care about the interests that are damaged by doing good.
From good means restraint, but doing evil is a kind of indulgence, everyone has inferior roots, once the inferior roots are mobilized, it is as if goodness is an iron cage closed to sin, once the iron cage is opened, the evil beast will devour many of the self-disciplined qualities as a person. In fact, a person's life is a process of good and evil game, despicable is the passport of the despicable, noble is the epitaph of the noble.
Born as human beings, we really can't be a purely good person, and certainly we can't be a completely evil person.
Suddenly, I remembered a few lines of dialogue in a video: the prophet said that when people die, they will go to heaven.
So someone asked, "Then who goes to hell?"
The Prophet replied: Now we are living in purgatory.
Yes, maybe we really live in human purgatory, otherwise how can everyone feel tired?