Should we kill the wolf?
This illustration is about the witch trials of the middle ages.
These innocent people have been blamed for illness, dead crops, poor weather.
These innocent people could be witches or normal women.
Should we kill them, if we don't know they were witches or not?
If we know they are witches, should we kill them?
We kill the wolf or witches because they are dangerous or we perceive they are dangerous?
Whether those killed were really dangerous or whether they were merely perceived to be dangerous are probably not the right questions to ask, for it has already been proved by facts that the killers, who actually managed to take the lives of those killed, were even more dangerous.
回覆刪除There are cruel intruders in the physical and the mental world.
回覆刪除(1) Physical world:
-Who is the intruder? Wolf or man?
-Whose habitat has been disturbed or ruined?
-Who claims to be rational?
-Who claims that knowledge is power?
-If man assumes man is the only species having knowledge and a rational mind, man has unlimited power. To dominate or to respect the relationship in existence between man and wolf becomes an attitude.
-Even if man-wolf relationship is not taken as equal, at least man has the power to think about "ECO-" and balance in the eco-logical world.
-Therefore such killing incident, man is always the party to be condemned, no doubt about that!
(2) Mental World:
-If a person has already been labelled as a witch, biased verdict has already been formed before trial.
-No justice can be expected during trial as the so-called witch can no longer be presumed innocent.
-Again those prosecuting the so-called witch as irrational, are they themselves really rational??
-If they are rational, it should be their responsibility to convert the irrational back to rational.
-If they hold the belief knowledge is rational and knowledge is power, they should be confident that irrationality can never be a threat to them. Then they should have no excuse and reason to execute such a so-called witch of irrational mind. 邪不能勝正!
-But the absurdity remain: "Knowledge is Power" itself becomes threatening and fatal.