This article is from WeChat official account: Vista to see the world (ID: vistaweek) , Author: Zozo, the original title: moral kidnapping “on the Internet” “, in front of this 9-minute drama are all younger brothers”, head picture source: “Good Land”

Score all the things that a person has done in his life on the moral dimension. How many points can you get?

For example, taking a stray cat +35 points, pretending to understand a friend’s stalk, but in fact opens Weibo secretly searching for -24 points, buying Taobao printing shirts -29 points, bravely admitting that I can’t enjoy classical music+ 14 points.

This is the basic setting of the American drama “Good Place” (the Good Place). In the face of this set of scoring rules that are not very detailed, Every behavior when a person is alive will bring about a change in score, and when he dies, he gets a final score.

People with high enough scores can enter the Good Place after death. (the Good Place). Those with low scores can only Can enjoy eternal life in the torment of (the Bad Place).

Although this evaluation system is subjective, it is at the same level as you and your girlfriends’ tea-sensing skills (spoilers here)

At the beginning of the first season, the four protagonists were told that they had arrived in a good place after death, a place where memories of your most missed taste radiated in the air. The morals of the people here are perfect. The ice yogurt here is tasted. It looks like love and success. There is only one dish on the menu—anything you want.

However, in this perfect packaging, it seems that everyone is torturing each other.

The indifferent and selfish Eleanor is forced to maintain a selfless and enthusiastic external image every day, just for fear of being exposed to the lies and driven back to the evil to be tortured. After all, her job before death was to sell fake “platinum” to the elderly “.

Believing that everything has a final answer and dare not rush to choose, Chidi, who has become extremely difficult to choose, faces new moral dilemmas every day.

The way he solves the emotional crisis is to use reason to deconstruct all emotions.

Poor concentration, extremely creative, empty-headed but fantasy Jason is forced to play a monk who has vowed to remain silent since he was 7 years old.

Tahani, the “superficial girl” who is always dissatisfied with the spotlight and the gaze of others, is matched by the system and becomes a soul mate with Jason.

Yes, your intuition is as sharp as the protagonist group. All of this is a hoax designed by the evil spirits.

DemonicThe motivation is always pure, they never disadvantage themselves, just want to torture you.

For this reason, they mobilized the crowd to build this garden that imitates the good land, just to allow these four human beings with different temperaments to torture each other forever in a place where they think they are heaven.

No one has been to the real good place for 500 years. In other words, all human beings have gone to hell for 500 years. Including Kant, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King.

It is obvious that there is something wrong with this scoring system.

The problem lies in the fact that modern society has become too complicated. Almost every simple, neutral behavior of human beings will amplify and prolong negative social effects.

For example, if you just bought a full-looking tomato at a convenience store, your purchase inadvertently supported farmers to use pesticides that are harmful to the environment and health.

For example, you just bought a factory-made mobile phone, and your purchase also rationalizes the harsh working environment of laborers to some extent.

Except for Almond, the “moral model” Chidi never imagined that he would do any harm to others.

For another example, after reading the character’s “Takeaway Rider, Trapped in the System”, how many times have we ordered takeaways with a sense of guilt?

These problems are not a simple confrontation between consumers and businesses, nor can they be solved by passing contradictions to consumers’ desires. Modern people have no obligation to reject higher-quality goods and services.

There is just one thing that we cannot deny. Our needs are always the driving force of these huge economic entities that roar and operate. We are blameless in terms of motivation, but we cannot escape responsibility in terms of cause and effect.

So generally speaking, in modern society, it is getting harder and harder to be a “good person”.

If according to this standard, being a “good person” needs to pay attention to all the consequences of his actions, what would his life be like?

“The Good Land” gave us an example, a man who was in a daze after taking drugs with a friend at the age of 21, who had penetrated the whole life system and scoring standards after death.

Since then, he has been living according to the scoring standard, just to go to the good place after death.

His three meals a day only eat radishes and lentils that he grows, because he does not want to harm the wild radish fields that grow near his home, and lentils have the least carbon emissions.

For a complete pastoral life, he doesn’t add any pressure to the environment, and he doesn’t use any electrical appliances.

Even water circulates by itself, Do not compete for resources with aquatic animals.

The way he gets along with people is that he does whatever other people ask him to do, as long as he can make the other person happy, even a vicious kid who makes fun of him.

This observation is undoubtedly shocking. A person who fulfills his moral standards to the utmost is a poor creature who is only altruistic and unfavorable and has no joy in life.

The direct conclusion it gives seems to be: It is impossible to be a strict “good person” in modern society.

No need to be so pessimistic.

In the play, there is no protagonist who really strictly controls this standard life, but under repeated torture, their “good value” has really improved.

Eleanor recognized her need for intimacy with others in the process of forming emotional connections with her teammates, and she no longer laughed at those sincere and kind actions.

From an indifferent island to a signal tower that constantly emits energy to others.

Chidi discovered that his pursuit of the right answer destroyed all the beautiful and perceptual experiences in his life, and caused indelible harm to those close to him.

So in the devil’s repeated “torture experiment”, he found a posture facing the unknown and could make a brave decision.

Tahini traced all her desire to pay attention to the outside world to the contradiction between herself and her sister. Since she was a child, living in the shadow of a good sister, her identity with her parents became the starting point for everything.

After realizing the abnormal education model of his parents and reconciling with his sister, Tahini also reconciled with his desire to pay attention.

Jason doesn’t seem to have changed much, but everyone realizes that his value is that because he only lives in the present, he has a brave and carefree understanding.

The answer is very clear. You can completely go against this set of standards, but you are still a person who can bring inspiration and energy to others and be loved and respected within your own abilities.

The problem with these standards is that they treat everyone as omnipotent saints. The perspective of saints has no boundaries. They can notice all the negative effects of their actions.As a result, their empathy is inexhaustible.

The perspective and empathy of ordinary people are always limited. It is difficult to empathize with people far away in the world or future humans, and sometimes it is even difficult to empathize with the closest people around you.

So those who work hard to care are more praiseworthy.

Therefore, because it is impossible to “be a person who can be responsible for the negative results of all your actions”, you slide to the extreme of relativism, thinking that all goodwill is hypocritical.

There is no need to just get lost in the huge sense of guilt, because this sense of guilt actually doesn’t help.

Because everyone’s perspective is limited, everyone has only the ability to practice his own moral code.

People who want to ease the work pressure of takeaway riders will choose not to order takeaways during peak hours; people who care about climate and environmental issues will take their shopping bags when they go to the supermarket; people who are willing to make efforts for gender equality, Start with education for yourself and those around you.

But none of us should blame each other for not paying enough in the areas that each other cares about.

This is not the ideal perfect world. Everyone is devoted to all social issues, and everyone avoids all negative consequences of their actions.

This is the best that ordinary people can do.

The significance of this individual’s attention to the world does not need to be enlarged, nor does it need to be pessimistically reduced. Its value lies in this attention itself.

This article is from WeChat official account:Vista sees the world (ID: vistaweek) , author: Zozo