Chapter 458 - 150: [Brutal Beating] (6400)_4
"But you’re human, and so are others; you can’t treat everyone else as ants."
"I know." Chen Yan spread his hands: "But... I sometimes can’t control my attitude."
Lin Qingquan sighed: "Understood."
"Since you understand, tell me, can this problem be cured?"
"It’s quite easy." Lin Qingquan chuckled.
"Go ahead."
Lin Qingquan looked at Chen Yan’s face and said calmly: "It’s simple, just take a few beatings, and you’ll be cured. After taking enough beatings, you’ll understand that this world isn’t yours to do as you please, you’ll know how hard concrete is, you’ll know why flowers are so red."
Chen Yan thought seriously about it, surprisingly nodded: "Makes sense!"
He looked at Lin Qingquan: "Just a few setbacks will do?"
"Not enough." Lin Qingquan sighed: "You’ll also have to rebuild your self-awareness with a very clichéd word—morality."
Chen Yan nodded again, understanding Lin Qingquan’s point.
In this world, there are two forces that constrain human behavior.
One is called morality—the so-called morality is indoctrination.
One is called law—the so-called law is actually the "punishment mechanism."
The history of mankind, several thousand years, tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, over a million years...
The time it took to form morality is far less than the time it took to establish punishment mechanisms.
It can be said that when humans were still ignorant and primitive, the main force constraining human behavior was punishment!
Beatings, or deprivation of life.
If you fear pain, fear death, you’ll behave, you’ll know what can and cannot be done.
Slaves obediently worked for slave masters because they feared the whip.
Small slave masters trembled before big slave masters, offering a part of their income—because they feared beatings and death.
But violent punishment is not enough.
In today’s era, the law is already very perfected—that is to say, the means of punishing wrongdoing are also very perfected.
But, have the people doing bad things disappeared? Has crime disappeared?
Relying only on punishment is not enough.
Lin Qingquan laughed: "Have you watched a film? The one by that famous director from Dragon Country, an old movie work, has a line in it."
"What line?" Chen Yan asked.
"Even if killing weren’t illegal, I wouldn’t be able to do it—this line." Lin Qingquan said slowly: "This is ’morality.’ Punishment means are the rules of this world, but only one of them... an external constraining force, an external pressure.
For you, external constraints have practically disappeared.
Therefore, what you need is an internal constraint, a constraint on yourself."
Chen Yan quietly recited this sentence.
Even if killing weren’t illegal, I wouldn’t be able to do it.
Lin Qingquan poured Chen Yan another cup of tea: "If you want to get beaten, I can fulfill it—I can personally beat you a few times, ensuring it’s done thoroughly.
But... this method can’t suppress you indefinitely.
The constraints formed by violence will also be counteracted by violence—I use beatings to suppress you, and sooner or later, when your power becomes stronger, you’ll break through this layer of restraint. By then, your mental realm will be worse!
Because by that time, you’ll have developed a pattern of breaking constraints with violence."
Chen Yan looked at Lin Qingquan and tried to ignore the phrase "I can personally beat you a few times," he said seriously: "So, I need to improve my moral cultivation?"
"This may sound ridiculous, but it’s not—many people don’t do bad things not because they fear legal punishment, but because they instinctively believe it’s wrong, it’s bad!"
Chen Yan chuckled: "So, I need to become a good person?"
"Not a clichéd good person, not asking you to be a timid good old person—no.
Rather, you need to build within yourself a moral understanding that belongs to you, a standard you honor internally.
You need to establish your own standards of ’good’ and ’bad.’"
Chen Yan nodded once more, then remembered a question and asked: "Do cultivators in the Domain Realm also encounter this kind of shattered cognition like me?"
"No." Lin Qingquan shook his head: "In the Domain Realm, there are iron walls everywhere, beatings everywhere.
Guiyuan Realm wants to develop this mental ailment, just look up, thousands of Ascension Realm, Celestial Human Realm, Golden Body Realm, Primordial Spirit Realm, Venerables, Earth Venerable, Celestial Venerable...
Want to get beaten? You can get beaten every day, constantly!
Where would someone develop your kind of problem?
Only in your world, where there are no powerful cultivators, are there not that many beings who can ’beat’ you into submission.
You have transformed from the mindset of an ordinary person, suddenly finding yourself standing at the top, and then... you’ve floated."
"What about the Celestial Venerables in the Domain Realm? Celestial Venerable is the strongest, right? Who ’beats’ the Celestial Venerable?"
"The Heavenly Dao!"
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