Ninety-five, Legislative Rewards (Part 1)
Ninety-five, legislation to reward good deeds
Everyone put forward many useful suggestions on the idea of a moral court. Of course, everyone knows that this moral court cannot be established in a day or two. If the judgment of the moral court is to be effective, it will take a long time for everyone to build and build it.
Propaganda is the only way to make the Moral Court have strong credibility. Only when everyone accepts the existence of the Moral Court and believes that the Moral Court will not unjustly accuse good people. Therefore, this will be a very long process.
Zhao Tieyun smiled easily: "Father's idea is really wonderful. With the moral court, our future work will be much easier." Everyone smiled. Indeed, if the whole society pursues a higher moral realm,
If you are not evil but do good, then it will be much easier to govern the country.
However, Han Wenzheng poured cold water on everyone: "You don't think that a moral court can solve all problems, do you?" "Father, although the moral court cannot solve all problems, it can always maintain righteousness in society.
In this way, I believe there won't be any big problems." "No, that's not enough. Children, I'm afraid you are too naive."
Han Wenzheng sighed and said: "We, the Yanhuang tribe, have had many famous sayings to teach people to be good since ancient times. The most famous one is the famous saying of the disciples of our ancestors: 'Do not neglect doing good deeds if they are small, and do not do evil if it is small.'
Back then, in the age of the earth, all major religions taught people to be good, but the morality of the whole society was still being corrupted, and these teachings were of little use. Come to think of it, the famous sayings of our Yanhuang people are the most powerful.
It illustrates the problem: 'A good person is bullied by others, and a good horse is ridden by others'."
Everyone is disappointed. However, regarding this aspect, the Yanhuang tribe has many famous sayings, such as "good people are not rewarded", "loyal and upright, but always begging for food." and other famous sayings, all of which show that people have no good views on doing good.
Being a good person usually doesn't end well.
Zhao Tieyun said: "Father, what other clever tricks do you have?" "What do you think of the law?" Han Wenzheng's thinking jumped really fast. But he suddenly switched from famous sayings to the legal aspect. "Law?" "Yes."
, law." "The will of the ruling class rises to law, which is the definition in philosophy. In this sense, we, the Yanhuang tribe, are the rulers, and we are the highest level of the Yanhuang tribe, so our will
To a certain extent, it can represent the law." Wei Tiexing said with endorsement.
Everyone was stunned for a moment. From a philosophical definition, this explanation was correct, but they instinctively felt that something was wrong. However, they couldn't tell what was wrong. "If you think so,
If that’s all you know, then I’m really disappointed in you, children. Do you really think that your will is the law?”
Zhao Tieyun scratched his head: "Father, I'm afraid we don't understand the law enough. Please give me some advice." "The law is indeed the will of the ruling class, but the foundation of legislation is the morality of intelligent life.
At the cognitive level, no law can transcend the moral level of intelligent life. In other words, the law reflects the will of the ruling class, but no matter how good the ruling class is, its legal provisions cannot completely transcend morality.
The bottom line. For example, in any racial law, it is impossible to have provisions that exempt those who kill without reason. Therefore, the provisions of the law are the specific form of the will and morality of a racial group, not just the will of the ruling class.
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Han Wenzheng smiled and said: "So, even I, as the leader of the Yanhuang tribe, cannot regard my words and deeds as the laws of the Yanhuang tribe. Even if I am a saint, the saints follow the law, and what they say
The law is the law, but no matter how eloquent the saints are, they cannot formulate laws based on their own preferences. They must ensure the enforceability of the laws and other issues, and cannot formulate laws at will. Therefore,
, the law is very strict, and the role of the law is eternal."
"What do you think about the role of the law?" Han Wenzheng asked again. Wei Tiexing was a legal expert. He thought about it and said, "Father, the role of the law is to safeguard the interests of the ruling class and the entire racial group.
A tool of interest. From a philosophical point of view, law is a tool for the ruling class to maintain its rule."
Everyone saw Han Wenzheng's expression and knew that Han Wenzheng was not satisfied with Wei Tiexing's answer. As expected, Han Wenzheng said with a straight face: "You all only understand some of the superficial aspects of the law, but you do not understand the true essence of the law.
The greatest function of the law is to reward good and punish evil.”
Everyone's expressions are really wonderful, but if you think about it a little deeper, isn't the law meant to reward good and punish evil? Those who break the law must be punished, and good people must be praised. It's that simple. "Father, the law is
We can all understand the aspect of punishing evil, but how can we start talking about rewarding good?"
Han Wenzheng smiled: "This is the imperfection of the law. However, in fact, the law has rewarded good deeds, but people usually do not realize it. Of course, the law has done a very adequate job in punishing evil, but in
However, there are some shortcomings in rewarding good deeds, so the law sometimes appears to be rather deformed."
"We Yanhuang people have countless famous aphorisms, including two of them: 'All evils are first, and filial piety is the first.' The best thing in the world is filial piety, and the most basic good is also no more than filial piety. However, among us Yanhuang people,
In people's understanding, when there is a dilemma between loyalty and filial piety, those who choose loyalty will also be regarded as doing the greatest filial piety, because loyalty is the greatest filial piety, loyalty to one's own race, loyalty to one's own country, and serving oneself.
To be loyal to the country and race to the greatest extent, this is the greatest filial piety. So, how to be loyal to the country? One of the most convenient ways is to be an official, hold power, and use the power to do things for your race and country, so that
When one's own race and country become stronger, this is the greatest loyalty."
Everyone has come to understand that this is indeed the case. When an official does things for the people wholeheartedly, benefits the people, and makes the country and the race stronger, for such an official, the people and the country and the race will reward him.
Giving him a higher status and greater power is the reward of the law.
Han Wenzheng smiled again and said: "In a sense, being loyal as an official is a great kindness, and great kindness should be rewarded. This is the consensus of everyone, but in ordinary times, you should do some good deeds and do your best.
Good deeds such as helping others can only be regarded as small kindnesses. However, small kindnesses have never been rewarded by law. Therefore, only large kindnesses are rewarded and small kindnesses are not rewarded. This is the biggest shortcoming of the law. Of course.
, it was just that the conditions at the time did not allow it. Therefore, if we want to promote the righteousness of society and let the power of morality play its greatest role, we need to solve the problem fundamentally, and that is to legislate to reward good deeds."
Zhao Tieyun's eyes shone with admiration on his face, and he shouted as if he had turned into a nymphomaniac: "Father, you are so great. You can come up with such wonderful ways. It is really great. Iron punishment, we must
We should implement my father's ideas as soon as possible and formulate a law that can reward good deeds."
Sun Tiejian scratched his head: "Father, brother, what is going on?" Han Wenzheng started doing the same thing again: "Tieyun, please explain to everyone." Zhao Tieyun did not refuse, he thought about it.
He said at once: "Dear brothers, we all understand that the so-called doing good is basically harming oneself and benefiting others. The essence of the so-called doing bad things is harming others and benefiting oneself. Therefore, in terms of gaining benefits, those who do harming others and benefiting themselves are always better than those who do harming oneself.
People have many more things to do, so in society, there are always people who work hard to do bad things, but there are very few people who work hard to do good things.”
Seeing that many people didn't quite understand. Zhao Tieyun thought for a moment and said, "Let's use an example to illustrate. Third brother, you are a rich man and your moral level is very high. If you think you are rich, you should
Do some good deeds for the people, so you use the money to build bridges and pave roads for everyone, help the lonely elderly, etc. However, these good deeds you do do not get any profit in return, they will only make your pocket empty.
There are few, as for other hidden rewards, it is difficult to calculate clearly. Therefore, this is no reward for doing good."
I understand, it is true. There are many examples of this in society. For example, people who volunteer sacrifice their own rest time to help others. However, there is no reward for such volunteers. No one will
Paying you any compensation for your volunteer work means doing good without reward. On the contrary, people who do bad things can generally get some benefits. In this way, the difference between those who do good things and those who do bad things is reflected. Do
There are no benefits to doing good things, and there are benefits to doing bad things. Of course, those who do bad things will be punished by the law, but since ancient times, countless people who have done bad things have escaped the punishment of the law. In this way, driven by interests, naturally
There are many people who do bad things and few people who do good things.
"My father just mentioned that those who do great good deeds are rewarded by law, and those who are rewarded are high-ranking officials and powerful people. But those who do small good deeds are not rewarded. However, after all, there are only a few people who are qualified to do great good deeds, but in society there are
The vast majority of people can only do small good deeds. Therefore, doing small good deeds without reward will greatly dampen everyone's enthusiasm for doing good deeds. If we can formulate a law to punish those who usually do good deeds,
If you are rewarded, I believe everyone will be much more motivated to do good deeds, and they will even take the initiative to do good deeds."
However, Qian Tiexin raised a question: "But, in this case, doing good deeds becomes driven by profit, can it still be regarded as doing good deeds?" "If you do good with the intention, you should be rewarded even if you do good.
Evil should also be punished. This is the most basic legal attitude. Of course, if you do good with intention, you can get a small reward for doing good, and if you do evil without intention, you can get light punishment for doing evil. However, that is just a matter of sentencing, and this is not the case.
What is important, what is important is an attitude. A common cognitive attitude of the whole society. As long as those who do good deeds are rewarded, even if it is just a small reward, it can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm. Because a small reward is much better than no reward.
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Sun Tiejian is a master in fighting, but he is a bit stuck on this aspect: "Father, brother, I still don't quite understand, where is the role and enthusiasm of this legislation to reward good deeds? Also, what are we doing?
Chapter completed!