I Like This Dream!

An Xu had a dream.

"Remember the question you talked about last year about the happiness of the poor and the rich?" Chris asked.

"Which one?"

"You said that the happiness of two people cannot be considered as a whole. If the wishes of the poor and the rich conflict with each other, no matter what choice you make, you will be half unlucky, and the rich will have greater influence. At that time, I asked you whether the weak must be sacrificed. , you didn’t answer me.”

"Huh? You're still thinking about this! In fact, it's all lies..."

"It's indeed a lie." Chris laughed. "It took me a long time to realize that your assumption was also problematic."

Anxu gestured to express his willingness to hear the details.

"I encountered such a thing in the patrol team. A commoner was accused by a noble of usurping his family's territory, so he had to leave the place where generations of people had lived and go to live on the border where alien beasts were infested. In the ensuing tide of beasts, the civilians A family of five people died at the mouth of a strange beast. They are by no means the only example." Chris said, "So, the equal numbers of nobles and commoners you mentioned do not exist."

Chris looked at her and narrated clearly: "The common people cannot support the same number of nobles, just like a deer cannot support a tiger. Their composition is like a date pit cut in half, with a large base and a small top. , only a large number of common people can satisfy the desire of a noble. Therefore, it is not a 50% probability at all. To make one percent of the nobles happy, I am afraid that 99% of them need to be sacrificed. For the benefit of the people.”

"Even if a noble's influence is greater than that of ten commoners, he has to consume the resources of hundreds of people and sacrifice the happiness of hundreds of people. I don't think such a sacrifice is reasonable at all," he said.

"Congratulations, you discovered it!" An Xu applauded, "It's just sophistry, using wrong conditions that you didn't discover to draw wrong conclusions."

"Looking at it this way, I'm afraid that the balance of trade-offs is also a sophistry." Chris said helplessly, "The so-called choice of 'having infinite potential on one side and sinners with various crimes on the other' doesn't mean that you With the Sullivan family? If I had said "superpowers" at that time, you would have immediately said, "So I'm right."

"Oh, Chris really understands me!" An Xu held her face and twisted around to pretend to be cute. Thanks to her good looks, this look was actually quite cute, making Chris want to knock her on the forehead. Trying to hold it back. She twisted for a while and then asked: "So you still sacrifice the few to save the many?"

"It's best not to sacrifice anyone." Chris shook his head, "But if I have to sacrifice, I will still choose the side that brings greater benefits to the whole."

"Let me give you another question!" An Xu smiled slyly, "You are driving a speeding carriage on a road that is divided into two lanes. At this time, people playing in a similar place appear in front of you. Children. On the left is a regulated carriageway, and there are five children playing who do not follow the rules. On the right is not a regulated carriageway, and there is a child who obeys the rules. At this critical moment, which way will you drive? ?”

Chris thought for a moment and asked, "Which way would you drive?"

"Of course, let's keep driving." An Xu replied, "There is nothing wrong with children who play quietly by themselves. Why should they be sacrificed for other people's faults? No matter how many people do wrong things and endanger others, they are still the same. It would be better for society to die."

"They're still very young, and they're not guilty enough to die," Chris said.

An Xu rolled his eyes.

"I can't convince you." Chris shrugged, "But I will choose to change lanes."

"Which innocent child should be crushed to death?" An Xu said with a smile, "Are you sure that those five naughty children who did not obey the law at a young age will make greater contributions to society when they grow up?"

Chris glanced helplessly at An, who was "disobeying the law at a young age", and said sternly: "That's not the reason. You have probably never driven a carriage, right? A speeding carriage hit five obstacles one after another. Even children can easily roll over.”

"Why?"

An Xu was really surprised this time. Is this the reason? Isn’t Chris’ character a messenger of justice? She thought self-sacrifice was his inherent skill.

"In one or two years in the morning, I would definitely answer 'to save the majority.'" Chris smiled, "But in real life, there is not such an ideal choice. Once the carriage rolls over, not only the driver will be seriously injured. , those five children, or the one child on the other side, are all implicated, which means that none of the seven people will be spared. If there are not enough manpower around, the injured survivors can only wait to die. "

"So I will choose the road alone." Chris said, "It will not roll over when running over a carriage. I will check the condition of the child after stopping the carriage. As long as he does not die on the spot, he will be taken with him." He or she goes to seek help from a healer. Even if that one child dies, I can still be responsible for that family who lost the child and do my best to compensate for their pain and loss. I can still afford a family of one child, but If it were five, I wouldn’t be able to do it with my current ability.”

Chris took a breath and concluded: "A person's power is limited, and 'rescue' beyond one's own strength is just the stupidity of overestimating one's own capabilities. It has no use except to impress oneself and cause trouble to others."

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An Xu woke up.

She thought of her previous dream, ah, no, the content of a dream within a dream, and she was not surprised that she would dream about Chris. It has been a year since the last meeting. Yesterday was the promised meeting day, but Chris didn't come. It was really frustrating.

But why do you dream about this paragraph? They exchanged letters every two months. When they met, they not only talked about their own lives, but also talked about anecdotes they had learned from various places. This kind of philosophical conversation did not take up a large proportion. Anxu thought she would dream about the food cooked by Chris.

Thinking of food, she became greedy again. In reality, An Xu was clearly not a foodie, but now he was thinking about eating every day. It was all the ascetic courtyard's fault. She has a big appetite, but she hasn't grown much taller. Now Esther, the elementary school girl, is almost as tall as her.

Anxu hammered the pillow angrily.

"Ann!" Someone knocked gently at the door.

"Here we come!" An Xu yawned, quickly washed up and walked out. Esther stood at the door waiting for her, just like she did every morning when she overslept.

After being inexplicably named the God's Favorite and separated from his friend Chris, Anxu finally ushered in the belated start of college life. Her progress was awkward and no one cared about her, so she simply became a day student. When she saw any interesting classes, she would sit in the back of the classroom. Her superb learning ability with a photographic memory is worthy of the name of God's favored person. In addition, she has no interest in religious brainwashing courses. In just one year, she has learned everything worth learning in the twelve grades of the seminary.

From then on, Anxu's life was like leaving the tense high school and entering the free and unhurried college era. He began a three-point and three-dimensional life in his own room, Nancy's courtyard and the cafeteria. Teacher Nancy felt that she was too lonely alone, so she sent her to "communicate with peers." For convenience, she directly found the only little sister Esther whom she knew and had no hatred for, and treated her as a daily task. Esther started to tremble when she saw her, and finally progressed to the point where she acted as a human alarm clock for Anxu every day, and asked her to tell stories when she was free.

"Good morning, Esther," she greeted.

"Good morning, An!" Esther showed a soft and healing smile, causing An Xu to stretch out his claws and pull her cheek.

"Oh... you have such a bad face!" Esther said inarticulately with a sad face, trying her best to save her cheeks from her claws, "My face is going to get bigger!"

"This is massaging. Your face will become smaller, and your face will become bigger when you look at Xiao Huang's book!" An Xuwu said to himself that the other party didn't understand, and rubbed it a few more times before loosening the two soft balls. Face flesh.

"Really?" Esther said hesitantly, "A little yellow book, a book with a yellow cover?"

"uh-huh."

"No, the cover of my textbook is yellow!" Esther said in a panic, letting go of the hand covering her cheek, "Why don't you pinch me again?"

Silly Baitian is still Silly Baitian when she grows to 1.8 meters.

Esther's little sister, Anxu, is four years old and enters school a year later than her. She didn't see Ann's whipping, but only heard a bunch of rumors about Anna Sullivan. These rumors were so surreal that as soon as another official surreal statement—Anna Sullivan was a favored one from God—appeared, Esther did not hesitate to believe the latter.

She seemed to be the illegitimate daughter of a certain noble family. She was well protected, and her mind was full of innocent thoughts. She would believe whatever An Xu, the God's Favored One, said. Anxu felt that he had an obligation to protect her innocent and lovely head to prevent her from growing into a weirdo-loving person with a bad brain (like Sister Mary), or a good-faced Lance who was blinded by a bad belly.

Specific protection methods include:

"God created the heaven and the earth, and hung the sun, moon and stars on the sky..." the teacher said on the podium.

"Actually, we are also on a star. The earth is round." Anxu said in Esther's ear.

“So God created all living things on earth, and He created man in His own image…”

"...But why are people divided into male, female, alpha, beta, and omega? If God is created according to Himself, what does God look like?"

Esther nodded with her mouth open, and there seemed to be patterns of mosquito coils swirling in her eyes. Taking classes in this kind of environment with built-in barrage, I really don’t know what her final world view will be like.

The casual An Xu never thought about this problem at all. As soon as the bell rang, she jumped up and waved goodbye to Esther. "You don't have to look for me today!" She told the elementary school girl and ran out in three steps and then two steps.

Hopefully Chris will be there today.