Does Fan Paopao deserve such a severe punishment?

It is inevitable that Fan Meizhong will be scolded bloody because he violated the traditional morals of the Chinese people. The reason why Fan Meizhong was nicknamed Fan Paopao was the result of his trial in the traditional moral court.

Fan Meizhong deserves to be scolded. He will not even take care of his mother when a big earthquake comes. This is unacceptable in any society's moral values. As a teacher, he was the first to flee when the earthquake struck, regardless of the lives of his students. This was completely contrary to his professional ethics.

However, when many people denounced Fan Meizhong, they did not find that there was something worth pondering about Fan Meizhong. The reason why Fan Meizhong had the courage to claim that he was challenging traditional moral concepts when being reviled by thousands of people actually relied on his belief that the value of personal life is above all else.

Fan Meizhong is going too far and using the most extreme way to impact traditional morality. His behavior is tantamount to Dong Cunrui's sacrifice of his own life to blow up a bunker. It is tantamount to destroying himself to show the importance of the value of personal life.

In fact, in real life, many people have questioned traditional moral concepts. The difference is that most people raise questions in the face of many tragic events, while Fan Meizhong uses his own behavior and language to interpret the supremacy of individual life.

The most typical example is that in July 1982, Zhang Hua, a student of the Second Brigade of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, gave up his precious life by jumping into a septic tank to rescue an old farmer who accidentally fell into the tank. life. At that time, Zhang Hua's deeds were widely spread, and he himself was awarded the title of martyr.

In 1982, at the beginning of reform and opening up, it was the time when Western cultural concepts were introduced into China. The prevailing social ideology at that time that emphasized personal value had a fierce conflict with Zhang Hua's behavior. At that time, quite a few people believed that Zhang Hua's motivation to save people was understandable, but the result was uneconomical. Therefore, some people concluded that Zhang Hua's death was not worth it.

This kind of thing happened countless times before or after 1982, and without exception, they were all praised by the society. Because Chinese traditional culture encourages a person's heroic sacrifice and does not spare human life. The ugliness of traditional Chinese culture lies in the fact that one can kill one's own son out of filial piety in order to repay his parents for raising him. The story of the twenty-four filial piety that has been passed down to this day promotes this most decadent idea.

However, what is even more sad is that when the country needs individuals to sacrifice their lives, traditional culture requires people to put aside filial piety. Under the banner of loyalty to the emperor and the country, the inability to have both loyalty and filial piety has become an excuse for some people to escape moral punishment. In order to help the Chinese people get out of the dilemma of choosing loyalty and filial piety, and to provide a moral cover for those who are unfilial to the country, some people spare no effort to promote the story of the mother-in-law tattooing "loyalty to the country" on Yue Fei's back.

Even today, our media is still promoting stories about people who have walked in and out of homes three times because of work, and they are still promoting stories about heroes who are dying because of their father and are unwilling to go home to see him. Deeds. In fact, on the surface, it seems that these people's behavior is indeed greater than Fan Paopao, but after careful reflection, they are not as real as Fan Paopao. Because I don't believe that a person who doesn't even care about his family can be dedicated to his work, because a person who doesn't even care about the life and death of his family can serve others sincerely.

Chinese people’s thinking tradition is single, because it is caused by the single Chinese cultural tradition. To be filial to your parents is to abandon your children, this is what the Twenty-four Filial Piety Chart says; to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic is to abandon your family, this is what countless heroic figures in history tell us. The unitary culture of the small-scale peasant economy determines the thinking inertia of the Chinese people and also determines the Chinese people's code of conduct.

People like Fan Paopao certainly do not deserve praise, because he uses shameless behavior to promote his own ideas. A modern Chinese society requires the renewal of people's ideas, but it must not abandon the most basic moral bottom line of mankind. If there is one point that can be highlighted about Fan Paopao's behavior, it is that he chose the tragedy of self-destruction in order to tell the whole society about the importance of his personal life value.