Su Yuchen stared at Liao Feng blankly, he asked, “Do you even understand what killing means? It is just destruction! Killing only means destruction. Does everything need to be destroyed?”

“Liao Feng, it is okay to destroy in certain situations. Now answer me, what should be the reasons to kill something or someone? I want you to think about the reason. Give me reasons.”

Liao Feng began to think to give an answer to Su Yuchen. Su Yuchen’s father had never seen his son so worked up before. He became worried, and paid more attention to his son’s mental state.

Liao Feng quickly answered, “If you don’t kill a chicken, you don’t get meat. You need to kill to eat.”

“When bandits attack our village, we need to kill them to survive.”

“When evildoers do evil, we need to kill to protect everyone.”

Su Yuchen nodded, “Yes, you kill something to eat it. It’s reasonable. We kill chicken to eat meat, we grow crops and cut them to eat them. We need to eat to survive. So, to survive, we kill. It’s acceptable to kill or destroy something in this situation.”

He questioned Liao Feng, “Do you eat another human? Are you a cannibal?”

Liao Feng’s face turned twisted, “Yuck! Who eats humans? Only demons would do that.”

Su Yuchen answered, “We don’t need to eat each other to survive. We are not a threat to ourselves. We don’t need to kill each other to survive.”

“Do we need human skin to make clothes?”

Liao Feng answered instantly, “No!”

Su Yuchen said, “We have a vast land to find a place and built shelter, don’t we?”

Liao Feng nodded, “Yes!”

Su Yuchen said, “It is not necessary for me to eat another person for me to survive, I don’t need his skin to make clothes. I can find other places to build a shelter if a place is occupied.”

“So I have no requirements to kill another person to survive. Is this correct, Liao Feng?”

Liao Feng thought and said, “Yes, it is not necessary to kill a person. However, bandits rob and kill us for all of them, shouldn’t we fight back to survive? Shouldn’t we resist when others try to kill us?”

Su Yuchen nodded, “Yes, we can kill to resist. Whoever it may be, bandits, foreign armies, thieves, rapists, etc… we can kill them if we want to live.”

“Now, let me simplify some things.”

“Remember these two important points.”

“First, I have no need to kill another person to survive.”

“Second, I don’t need to be killed for another person to survive.”

Su Yuchen put his hands over the fire, at a safe distance. Su Yuchen’s father, who was grilling fish, became alert when he saw his son moving his hands over the fire.

Su Yuchen said to Liao Feng, “Look at this fire, it doesn’t burn me when I am at this distance. I also have no reason to touch the fire. I will be burned if I touch it.”

Su Yuchen shook his hands violently over the flames, he said, “However, if I unreasonably try to destroy this fire by scattering the burning sticks with my own hands, what will happen to my hands?”

Liao Feng was stunned by the actions of Su Yuchen, he pulled his hands and said, “Your hands will burn if you do that.”

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Su Yuchen retracted his hands, he said, “See, an unreasonable behaviour will destroy my hands. I don’t need to destroy the fire with my hands. If I try to destroy the fire, it will also destroy me.”

“Now I am following my unreasonable behaviour.”

“What will happen if I can’t bear the pain and decide to pull my hands halfway through? My hands are already burned and the burning sticks are also scattered a bit with my disturbance. But my saneness is regained, my hands can still be cured.”

“What will happen if I successfully destroy the fire? It means I have completely lost my sane mind, my hands are totally burned in the process, they are destroyed.”

“Similarly, isn’t it an unreasonable behaviour if I try to kill you? Isn’t my saneness in question?”

“If I try to destroy you, you will also try to destroy me in the process of retaliation.”

“If I regain my saneness and stop trying to destroy you, I can still avoid being killed by you.”

“But if I don’t, and then I fail, I will be destroyed by you.”

“Even if I fail, isn’t your mind also disturbed by me?”

“And if I succeed in killing, my sanity will be totally destroyed.”

“Answer me, if my sanity is totally destroyed, am I still a reasonable man?”

Liao Feng said, “No.”

Su Yuchen asked, “And if you killed me while trying to defend yourself, will your mind still remain undisturbed?”

Liao Feng answered, “No. I can’t bear it.”

Su Yuchen said, “Ask the villagers that survived the bandit raids, if they were ever comfortable after killing another man.”

Su Yuchen’s father said to them, “I killed a bandit in my youth. I felt proud when I did that, but still I was haunted by the fact that a man died in my hands. It wasn’t a comfortable feeling but if I didn’t kill that man at that time I might not have lived a comfortable life after.”

Su Yuchen said, “You are brave to fight the bandits, father. I didn’t expect for you to have that experience.”

Liao Feng asked, “Uncle Su, Are you still uncomfortable about killing a man.”

Su Yuchen’s father replied, “No, it is already a thing of the past. I already forgot about that incident.”

Su Yuchen looked at Liao Feng and asked, “An unreasonable decision harmed both parties. Now a third party can stop the situation.”

“Do you remember the points that I said were important?”

Liao Feng thought and said, “I don’t need to kill for survival and I don’t need to be killed for other's survival.”

Su Yuchen asked Liao Feng, “Was the third party actually involved in an unreasonable event?”

Liao Feng answered, “No.”

Su Yuchen asked, “If I touch the burning sticks with my hands, does my father also need to touch the burning sticks to save me?”

Liao Feng answered, “No. He can just pull you without touching the burning sticks.”

Su Yuchen said, “The third party also doesn’t need to take the same unreasonable decision. He can try to capture the attacker without trying to kill him, can’t he?

Liao Feng answered, “Yes. He can capture the attacker and save the other person.”

Su Yuchen stared at Liao Feng and said softly, “Liao Feng, if you are the third party in a situation, that’s what you need to do. You don’t have to kill another person.”

Liao Feng stared at Su Yuchen, he went through everything Su Yuchen said and nodded. He smiled and said to him, “Brother Yuchen, you are right. I don’t need to kill others if I was not attacked.”

Liao Feng immediately inquired Su Yuchen, “However, what about the evildoers that commit heinous crimes and kill hundreds of people? Do we still need to concentrate on capturing them? Won’t they escape and kill more?”

Su Yuchen pointed at the flames, “What happens if these flames are extinguished?”

Liao Feng answered, “We will feel cold.”

Su Yuchen asked, “What happens if all the flames in the world are extinguished and the sun is destroyed?”

Liao Feng said, “Our planet will be destroyed without the sun.”

Su Yuchen gave a silly grin, “That’s not what I am pointing at. Let’s say, what if there is no heat source in our world?”

Liao Feng said, “We will die because of extreme cold.”

Su Yuchen asked, “Now, there is an evil person, who goes around destroying every heat source he sees. What happens in that situation?”

Liao Feng answered, “Those places which lost their heat source turn cold.”

Su Yuchen said, “Yes, those places turn cold. What will happen when there is no heat source for people? What happens to the evil person when the people decide to deal with him reasonably?”

Liao Feng answered, “The people need to find a heat source. The evil person will be captured.”

Su Yuchen asked, “The new heat source is again destroyed by the evil person who escapes. What happens now?”

Liao Feng tried to answer with some doubt, “The people need to find a heat source. The evil person will be captured.”

Su Yuchen said, “When the evil person repeatedly destroys the heat source, the people will feel cold and turn numb to the actions of the evil person. If he can’t be captured forever, and allowed to destroy more heat sources, the people will eventually die from cold.”

Su Yuchen stared into Liao Feng’s eyes, “The evil person is trying to destroy the people. The people can retaliate to survive. The evil person can be destroyed in the retaliation if the evil person doesn’t stop.”

“If evildoers go on committing heinous crimes in the society, and when they are not stopped, it will lead to the society becoming cold and numb to their actions. The society will eventually be destroyed by the evildoers.”

“The society must eliminate these attackers who threaten its survival.”

“You, as a part of this society, must eliminate the evildoer that threaten your survival.”