1, don't use your own moral standards to intimidate others, which leads to disharmony.

2. Don't just pay attention to grandiose truth, but understand others from people's basic desires. Man is neither a saint nor a villain.

3. Without absolute saints and villains and seizing the moral high ground, there would be no axis of evil.

Source: Zhuangzi.

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The valley is empty and the river is exhausted, and the mountains are deep. When a saint dies, a thief can't afford it, and the world is for no reason. Saints never die, thieves never stop. It is important for saints to rule the world, so is stealing feet.

You measure it, you steal it; Call it to call it, and then call it to steal; Trust for fu, steal with fu; Just take it as righteousness and steal it as righteousness.

How to know its evil? Whoever steals a hook will be punished, and the thief is a vassal, and the door of the vassal is benevolent. Is it stealing benevolence, righteousness and holiness and knowing evil? Therefore, those who are driven by thieves, expose princes, steal benevolence and righteousness, and strive for the benefits of welcoming, weighing and offering sacrifices can be persuaded, but the power of axes and cymbals can be banned. It is also a saint's fault that stealing soles of feet is forbidden.

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When the stream dries up, the valley is particularly empty, and when the hills level the deep pools, it is particularly full. When a saint dies, thieves will never rise again, and the world will remain peaceful. The thief won't stop until the sage dies. Even if the whole society is allowed to reuse saints to govern the world, then this is the greatest benefit of stealing feet.

Give the world a bucket and a welcome to measure the number of items, and then steal them together with the bucket and a welcome; Give the world a scale and a beam to measure the weight of the goods, and then steal them together with the scale and the beam; Make symbols and seals for the world to win people's trust, and then steal with them; Formulating benevolence and righteousness for the world to regulate people's morality and behavior, then it will be stolen together with benevolence and righteousness.

how do you know Those who steal small things like hooks will be punished to death, and those who steal the whole country will become princes; Benevolence and righteousness only exist at the door of the princes. Isn't this stealing benevolence and wisdom? Therefore, those who follow thieves, occupy the position of princes, steal benevolence and righteousness, and gain the benefits of competition, balance and Fuxi, even if they are rewarded by high officials and generous people, even if they have the majesty of executing people, can not be encouraged.

These situations are very conducive to stealing feet, which cannot be banned. It is the fault of saints. Therefore, fish can't leave the deep pool, and the weapon of governing the country can't be shown to people casually. Those so-called saints are sharp tools to rule the world and cannot be used to express the world.

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Once upon a time, there was a famous thief named stealing feet. One day, a disciple who stole his feet once asked him, "Is there any way to be a robber?" The thief replied, "Where can there be no road?" It is a "sage" to predict whether there are valuables in the room before burglary; The first person to enter the house is "brave"; The last exit of the house is "loyalty"; It is "wisdom" to judge whether you can do it at your discretion; Fair distribution afterwards is "benevolence". It is impossible to be a thief without these five qualities. "

From this point of view, good people can't stand in this world without knowing the way of saints, and bootleggers can't steal without knowing the way of saints; There are few good people and many evil people in the world, so saints bring less benefits to the world and more disasters to the world. So: saints appear, thieves rise. Only by attacking the saints and releasing thieves can the world be peaceful.

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