Taiwan’s Taroko Tunnel traffic accident killed half a hundred people, and the mainland’s pinkies made gloating remarks similar to the applause celebrating the U.S. “September 11”, which led to the disgust of the Taiwanese.
Schadenfreude is generally disgusting, especially when the disaster causes huge civilian deaths and injuries. The ancient Chinese clearly said: “In life, there are three things not to laugh at: “Do not laugh at natural disasters, do not laugh at human disasters, do not laugh at diseases.”
Another thousand years of history, there are three can not be spared: “misguided ministers, military disaster of the general, the harm of the people of the thief.”
And business ventures, there are three can not earn: “the national disaster of wealth, the profit of natural disasters, the food of the poor and weak.”
These three, to the twenty-first century, but the logic to re-analysis. For example, if the “profit of natural disasters” cannot be earned, then the Gopher 19 virus, which brings huge mask production enterprises, masks made in China, China’s exports to the United States rebounded, defeating the restrictions on Chinese exports in the U.S.-China trade agreement set by Trump, the matter is in line with Chinese interests. Besides, no businessman has announced that all profits from the mask operation will be donated to the millions of military lung or U.S. military athletes worldwide who died of the virus.
As for Pfizer vaccines, Gates, who originally ran computer technology, also stepped in and invested in vaccine and drug research. This is to take advantage of the global plague disaster to make a fortune, the price of public companies will be pushed up.
This “old adage” does not apply in the 21st century, as Zhang Xiaoquan used to sell scissors, three generations of family sole proprietorship. But now Western companies are soon listed, national disaster money, natural disaster profit, left-wing Gates, so to speak, are making money for listed companies. In other words, with globalized market principles, there is no moral problem for the living public A to share the profits generated by saving the public B from disasters.
Let’s look at the article of “gloating”. There are many stupid causes of human disasters, and a certain kind of human disaster caused by collective ignorance, especially by a very few discerning people who foresee, and advise them to follow common sense, if they continue to do so, otherwise there will be this disaster, after the human disaster really happened, these few knowledgeable people, a little gloating, is also understandable, and is a kind of freedom of expression.
Unless there is Buddha Sakyamuni’s extraordinary compassion. But the wise man is awake again, after all, are mortal.
The tunnel crash in Taiwan was technically a man-made accident in which a truck driver failed to pull the handbrake, not a man-made accident at the national policy level. If you had been there and reminded the driver to put on the handbrake, he would not have killed you.
The human disaster of state policy is different: Yuan Chonghuan for national merit, the emperor lingering execution, escorted to the execution ground, the people on both sides of the Yuan elite spit, a piece of meat to buy a penny to eat. Later, the Qing troops into the customs, the massacre of civilians, Yuan Chonghuan in heaven if the spirit of laughter, but also very normal.
Schadenfreude, is also a philosophy.
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