Why don't good people live long?

As the saying goes, "good people don't live long, bad people live for a thousand years." Some people think that this is a false proposition and a wrong judgment caused by people's psychological focus. In other words, people's attention is more easily attracted by the occasional bad luck of good people and the good luck of bad people, while ignoring the opposite situation.

Therefore, the illusion that "good people don't live long" will be formed in their hearts. So in their view, the life expectancy of good people and bad people is basically the same, and there is not much difference. This statement, although it sounds reasonable at first glance, can also cite many examples of good people living long lives and bad people dying young as evidence. For example, the good guys are Bing Xin and Jiang Yang, and the bad guys are Hitler, tojo hideki and Wang Jingwei.

Good people? Bad guys?

In fact, "good people don't live long, and evil people live for a thousand years." It's just a probabilistic cognition, not to say that exceptions are not allowed. Although this sentence contains a strong emotional tendency, it does not mean that it must be an illusion caused by psychological concentration.

Yes, you must have seen it. I agree with the sentence "Good people don't live long". However, this does not mean that I should advise you not to be a good person in the future. I hope you can be patient. When you understand why good people don't live long, then decide whether it will be good or bad in the future.

Good guys and bad guys are a relative concept. Compared with Guanyin, we are all heinous bad people. Compared with Satan, we are all good people through and through. As the general public, we are good, but we can't be better than avalokitesvara, and bad, but Satan, who sings Na Ying's "Looking at Flowers in the Fog" all day, can't tell loyalty and treachery from Through The Eye.

So how do we distinguish the good guys from the bad guys? From the perspective of self-value protection, everyone tends to think that he is a good person, but the fact is that people who dare to admit that they are bad people may make others feel more at ease.

Psychologists once asked a group of 5~ 16 people to answer such a question: Xiao Ming is picky about food when eating, and his mother said a word. As a result, I lost my job in anger. After Xiaogang finished eating, he secretly took the bowl to wash without his mother's permission, and as a result, he broke all the bowls at home. Who should be punished more severely, Xiaoming or Xiaogang? In this way, children before the age of seven will basically say that Xiaogang will be punished more severely because he has broken many bowls. Children after the age of seven get the opposite result. They think Xiao Ming should be punished more severely because he did it on purpose.

This experiment reveals the fact that we normal adults judge good people and bad people not by the results of their words and deeds, but by their internal motives.

The intrinsic motivation of people can be divided into two categories, one is the original motivation of maximizing personal interests. The purpose of this motivation is to gain more rights and resources, better survive and reproduce more offspring. Human beings dominated by this kind of motivation advocate power and strength, and are more easily dominated by the principle of "survival of the fittest" in nature. This kind of people are stubborn and emotional, self-centered, easy to yield to power, and their style is extremely aggressive and aggressive. The most typical representative is the German Nazi headed by Hitler. At present, American communist party and British Conservative Party can become the representatives of human groups with this intrinsic motivation to some extent. In a stable social system, people who take this motivation as their main internal motivation are often "bad guys".

Another driving force comes from the power of civilization within human society. This kind of motivation aims at maintaining social stability, advocates fairness and logic, is compassionate, and can equate the interests of others with their own interests. This is the social motivation that human beings have evolved to adapt to group life. /kloc-utopian socialists in Europe in the 0 th and 9 th centuries are typical representatives who hold this intrinsic motivation. Contemporary American Democratic Party and British Liberal Party can be said to be representatives of human groups with this intrinsic motivation to some extent. People with this intrinsic motivation are of course what we usually call "good people".

Both of these motives have a biological genetic basis and need to be further strengthened by the acquired environment. In everyone's body, these two motives always exist and struggle with each other. Sometimes, the original motivation occupies a strong position, and sometimes, it is dominated by social motivation. Some people, the original sexual motivation is more advantageous, for the bad guys; Others are good people, and more time is dominated by social motives.

Good guys and bad guys.

Good people may do some bad things. For example, Song Xianggong, a nice guy in the Spring and Autumn Period, just stuck to his principles and didn't attack the Chu army halfway, resulting in countless deaths under his command; Fang Xiaoru said an honest and frank sentence, "Maybe you will ruin my ten families!" As a result, the relatives and neighbors who have never seen Fang Xiaoru's face at ordinary times all fell to the ground.

Bad guys may also inadvertently benefit people around them. Seeing Qin Shihuang's luxury motorcade, Liu Bang, a rogue who shouted "Gentleman", was driven by vanity, and used all kinds of intrigues to defeat the great figure Xiang Yu, unified China and consolidated the institutional foundation of China's 2,000-year feudal civilization laid by Qin Shihuang. Yang Guang, a villain who killed his father and married his mother, dug the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal at the cost of tens of thousands of deaths for his own convenience, which benefited all generations and still exerts its residual heat.

Even the western invaders, relying on their boats and guns, greatly promoted China's entry into modern society. However, I believe that everyone, like me, will not be grateful to the former invaders.

There's an old saying in China, it's called "seeking benevolence". In a stable social system, people who pursue the maximization of personal interests often have more personal resources and live longer. However, this is at the expense of social evaluation. Therefore, it is not surprising that they have lost their reputation as "bad guys". And those who take the pursuit of social fairness and justice as their own responsibility often have to sacrifice their health and life. People respect their heroic behavior, and the social evaluation is naturally high.

For the sake of national awakening, Tan Sitong of Xuanyuan was recommended by blood.

Now, do you understand why "good people don't live long"?

Take seeing someone drowning as an example. Let's look at the performance of people with different motives:

William rockefeller, the owner of American billionaire Mobil Oil Company, is a legend dominated by primitive motives (thanks to the successful spread in China, interested readers can go to Baidu to find out how he educated his grandson).

One day he took his grandson for a walk along the Columbia River. In order to continue to hone his grandson, he did the same thing: "grandson, go swimming in the river, and grandpa will save you when you are in danger!" " Little Rockefeller with a bad memory really fell down. As a result, it was washed into the middle of the river by the rushing water. Little Rockefeller can't hold on any longer, and he may sink to the bottom of the water at any time, fluttering and shouting for help. At this time, the rich old Rockefeller walked to the shore and said to his grandson deeply, "Although you are my grandson, I won't risk my life to save you." Who told you not to practice swimming well and go to the deep water with super powers? " Besides, didn't I tell you not to trust anyone? If I tell you to go down, you go down! "

At this time, an old man who was completely dominated by social motives saw the little Rockefeller who kept calling for help: "Oh, God, how could you let a child suffer like this!" " (In fact, at this moment, God must have a puzzled expression: "I … I just made the Colombian river god play a joke on his grandfather … Sikas, this old rascal really came from destruction …" The old man jumped into the water before taking off his clothes, and after trying his best to save the child, he was dying. When people came from all directions to rescue the old man, there was no trace of Rockefeller's grandfather and grandson in the crowd. "Oh, God, are you an SB? Why didn't you tell me it was a China man ... in the river ... "The old man said the last sentence with his last breath. God was speechless and puzzled: "Everything is my fault. I am more wronged than China people!"! "! However, a good man like you, if Sister Guanyin hadn't begged me for you four times, I would have accepted you! ”)

In fact, most people, whether good or bad, are often unconscious, and they are all automatic reactions driven by the subconscious mind. It reflects the social and cultural influence he received in the growing environment. Understanding and reflection on "good people don't live long" is precisely a manifestation of people's self-awareness, although this awakening may be accompanied by a huge painful impact.

However, in order to control our own destiny, human beings must wake up from the current semi-ignorance state.