Crow's Paradise

Yao Yan looked at Captain Skull.

The moment Split Head met Yao Yan's gaze, he also realized what he meant.

"I am a journalist who was killed when I resisted my colleagues for fabricating false history,"

His voice was low but without any fluctuations, and seemed quite calm.

"Being killed for creating false history?"

Black Arm's voice was filled with laughter, as if it was just a joke.

Splitskull glanced at him without any reaction.

Yao Yan also glanced at him and said nothing.

It's a good source of rumors.

But why would you say that in front of others?

Presuppose that "his behavior is not irrational behavior influenced by emotions" and "his actions have a purpose"——

Given this premise, why would he do this?

Is it because his behavior will not be noticed?

The most common way is to use jokes and "entertainment" to dispel the seriousness of something.

This happened countless times during his lifetime.

Even the behavior itself was eliminated and became part of a certain phenomenon.

It's called "Geng".

However, at this time, a skull-cracking voice sounded:

"At that time, there was an article in the magazine where I worked that mentioned a war between three countries that should have happened three to four hundred years ago."

“The staff of my magazine described the territorial recovery of the invaded countries in this war as ‘territorial gain’.”

"Territory increase?"

This sentence made Black Wrist couldn't help but repeat it.

"Well, I objected at that time because, legally, this territory belongs to the country that was invaded."

Territorial recovery turned into territorial gain?

"However, the other party rejected my opinion and used 'increase' as a neutral word and an objective description. There is no problem."

Hearing this, Yao Yan felt that maybe he should smile, but it was a pity that he had no emotion.

"Then he wrote another sentence."

"The territorial increase and decrease of a feudal country is more objective than recovery and invasion."

“The occupation of territory by the aggressor country that initiated the war is also described as ‘territorial gain’, while the land recaptured by the other party is described as ‘territorial reduction’.”

The sound of skull splitting has no fluctuation:

"When I once again expressed my opinion that this description was not objective, the other party also rejected my opinion again and said, 'This is an objective description. This country's territory was also snatched by other countries five or six hundred years ago. ,What is the problem'?"

These words were all too familiar to Yao Yan.

A classic line of historical nihilism.

He encountered a lot during his lifetime.

Just because a country acquires territory through violent annexation does not mean that it acquires legitimacy at the same time.

There is no basic knowledge of international relations and political legitimacy, or the ownership of these legal principles.

After a country seizes territory, there will be a process of legalizing its rule.

To put it in a way that is familiar to ordinary people, it is “digestion”.

What you grab is not yours, and what you put into your mouth is not yours. Once it is digested, it is yours.

Only historical nihilists, and very crude historical nihilists at that, would describe history in a way that lacks basic common sense in political science, such as "anyone can rob it, and what's yours will be robbed."

"Winner takes all, victory is legitimacy" has fewer loopholes than the former.

But just less.

In the world he lives in, the most important things regarding territorial jurisprudence are international conventions and agreements between countries.

After a certain world war or intercontinental war, the signing of a treaty after victory resulted in the transfer and solidification of territorial legal principles.

One country and another country obtain legal transfer and solidification through the signing of a treaty.

If there is no such treaty agreement, then there is no legal right to rule unless the ruling regime has been destroyed and weakened.

Many people like to look at territorial issues in terms of property possession, not even property ownership.

There is a saying that many people have heard -

Major issues to minor ones out.

Or "downplay".

Invasion, expansion, and reconquest all increase territory.

Yes, regardless of ownership and territorial legal principles, territory is increased.

By setting aside facts and talking about definitions, many people without relevant knowledge can be drawn into a trap.

Yao Yan should not be too familiar with this type of operation.

However, his memory of Yao Yan during his lifetime generally followed the path of dialectical materialism. This historical nihilistic way of thinking could not even fool him during his lifetime, let alone him now.

This move, when used actively, also has a word -

Change the concept.

People are very familiar with the term "concept substitution", but it is so vague that they are not aware of the concept being substituted unless it is pointed out.

The culprit is still the fuzzy judgment mechanism, the efficiency machine of the human body.

When you meet someone who likes to use the description "exactly the same", be sure to examine them carefully.

Otherwise, words such as invasion and recovery, which have the common denominator of "territorial increase", can be replaced quietly.

However, key issues such as legal affiliation, legitimacy and legality will be quietly blurred or even forgotten.

When these judgment standards related to values ​​are blurred and information is missing, people's judgments will be greatly affected.

For xx to invade xx, people will be subconsciously hostile to the former.

Regarding the increase in xx territory and the decrease in xx territory, such dilution will quickly weaken people's tendency.

If you split it into two separate sections and describe it separately, people wouldn't even be able to immediately realize who got the territory from whom.

Even professionals.

Even if you have some understanding of semantic pragmatics, you are often not aware of this method of setting aside reality to talk about definitions at the first time.

People know whether a word is neutral or positive by definition.

However, if you replace certain words with neutral words, this seemingly objective behavior has its own problems.

The word used here has a legal basis, but it is not expressed in a clear sentence.

People are not aware of this implicit premise and cannot sensitively detect that the concept has been stolen.

This is a problem that Yaoyan himself could not avoid.

However.

What the truth is, he doesn’t know——

This is a description of a split skull.

He didn't know if what Split Skull said was true.

Try to avoid the influence of judgment caused by the "primacy effect".

Oh, it can also be called first impression, preconception.

At this time, the skull-cracking voice continued to sound:

"Then I was fired."

ps: After watching a few key politics, I feel that many people lack some basic knowledge.

How should I put it? When I was in college, I was in the debate club. The trick of secretly changing concepts was very useful in debate competitions. It was very useful if the other debater did not notice it.

Of course, the best trick to use in a debate is to seize the pain points and bring the opponent into your own rhythm.

Do not respond directly to the other party's questions, or do things that appear to be responses but are quickly bypassed.

The core of arguments that occur on the Internet is often not about reasoning, but about winning and losing.

As long as you win, then onlookers will often follow the winner's logic and crush the loser.

And in philosophy, to a certain extent, the same is true.

According to my rough understanding, different philosophies often follow different logics.

Oh, just a crude metaphor. "Logic" itself is also a philosophy.

Of course, this is an inaccurate description. There are more specific differences, and it cannot be applied to all. I don’t even know the scope of application of this statement and how many types of philosophy it can apply to.

Scope of application