Rebirth of the Father of Anime

The battle between the King of Heroes and the King of Conquerors came to an end, and the life-and-death struggle between Kiritsugu and Kirei was still intense. But what attracted people's attention the most was the battle between Saber and Berserker.

The former King Arthur, and the former Knight of the Round Table - Lancelot.

During the battle between the two, the bgm of Lancelot's betrayal and the battle of Jianlan Hill in "Fate/The Court of Avalon" sounded, with deep sorrow in the passion.

Arturia's glory and her downfall appear alternately in people's minds, which makes people feel indescribable.

Lancelot revealed her real body at the last moment. After conquering the king's army, this was another heavy blow to her heart, even worse.

The dazed appearance makes it impossible to see King Arthur waving the dazzling light at all.

For the sake of the Holy Grail, for the re-election of the king, only in this way can everyone be redeemed - Artoria thought so, with such a naive idea, she stabbed the long sword in Lancelot's chest into Lancelot's chest.

Tears flowed from her almost dry eye sockets, but she didn't realize it.

Lancelot collapsed with a contented smile.

"King Arthur doesn't understand people's hearts."

This sentence echoed in the ears of the audience again, leaving the audience with a long sigh of regret.

Now, she still doesn't understand.

Lancelot just felt guilty for betraying his most admired King Arthur, hoping to get the punishment he deserved, so now, he left with a smile.

The appearance of Lancelot may not be a coincidence, because his wish is King Arthur. As long as King Arthur is called, he will follow.

The knights were not wrong for saying this about her, the King of Heroes was not wrong for sneering, and the King of Conquerors was not wrong for calling her "childish," until now. She still doesn't understand that she is the only one who can become king.

"The words of the King of Conquerors to King Arthur in the Theory of the Three Kings reminded me of a story: a college student came out of a poor mountainous area, and the folks raised money to let him finish college. After he graduated, he had no choice but to live in a big city. Instead, he returned to his hometown to be a rural teacher. He used his own actions to repay the kindness of the villagers. Unexpectedly, the villagers were unwilling to send their children to school because they saw the cost After finishing college with so much money, he ended up staying in an unknown mountain village, so what is the significance of studying.

According to the saying, Saber is like that college student. Just purely thinking about helping others, but not leading others, maybe this kind of kindness will temporarily save them, but the future of those who are saved is dark. "

"Many years ago, I also simply wanted to be a kind person, punish the evil, promote the good, and protect the weak. Later, I finally realized that it was just a child's naive idea. Saber's chivalry is undoubtedly shining with the brilliance of justice, but Can this spirit really be implemented? How many people will fulfill this spirit of admiring sacrifice and dedication. As the saying goes, "Who would look forward to the thorny road called martyrdom. Even dreaming of it" .”

"Adam Smith pointed out in The Wealth of Nations: Everyone enters the market out of selfish desires, and under the guidance of the invisible hand, it maximizes social welfare. Human nature is inherently evil, and only selfishness is the inexhaustible driving force driving human actions. To put it another way: Only people’s conscious actions can improve their lives. The help of the strong to the weak can only temporarily improve the weak, and after that there will be no change in the fate of the weak. Only the conscious actions of the weak can permanently save the weak themselves The failure of the planned economy is an attempt to stifle the selfish nature of people and plan people's lives with top-down orders instead of letting people consciously pursue their own happiness. Leading the people instead of saving them, because blindly saving leads to It's just a temporary improvement and a dark future." A fan said about King Arthur's feelings.

There has been a saying in China since ancient times: It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

As the Heroic Spirit returns to the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail appears. A black substance overflowed from the Holy Grail, exuding an aura of "evil". Corrodes, burns everything around.

Kiritsugu came to the inside of the Holy Grail, which was the Holy Grail's response to him. As long as he accepts, the Holy Grail is at his fingertips.

However, is the "Holy Grail" in front of him the Holy Grail he prayed for?

On the inside of the Holy Grail, I saw the question of the Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail assumes an extreme scenario, asking Kiritsugu to choose one of the two ships to save the passengers on it. Kiritsugu's contradiction of justice can be explained with a very classic paradox: the trolley paradox.

The "trolley problem" is one of the most well-known thought experiments in the field of ethics. Its content is roughly as follows: a lunatic tied five innocent people to the tram tracks. An out-of-control trolley was heading towards them and was about to run over them moments later. Luckily, you can pull a lever and make the trolley move onto another track. But there's another problem, that maniac also tied a guy on that other track. Considering the above situation, should you pull the lever?

The trolley problem was first proposed by philosophers to criticize major theories in ethical philosophy, especially utilitarianism. Utilitarianism advances the idea that most moral decisions are made on the principle of "providing the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people". From a utilitarian point of view, the obvious choice would be to pull the lever, saving five and killing one.

But critics of utilitarianism argue that once the lever is pulled, you become complicit in an immoral act—you are partially responsible for the death of a lone person on the other track. Others, however, argue that your situation requires you to do something, and that your inaction would be equally immoral. In conclusion, there is no such thing as perfectly moral behavior, and that's the point. Many philosophers have used the trolley problem as an example to show that real-life situations often force a person to violate his own moral code, and that there are situations where there is no perfectly moral course of action.

This is an eternally discussed and unsolvable proposition in ethics and philosophy, but in reality, people must be forced to make a choice. Rawls' theory of justice proposes two principles: "everyone's interest" means that everyone has equal rights in terms of freedom and interests; "equality is open to all" means that social and economic unequal arrangements should be rationalized High expectations are placed on everyone, and positions associated with unequal interests should be open to all, and risks must be assumed.

Based on the former, we cannot make an ethical choice between the lives of the minority and the majority; The best choice among the ways that can be chosen), we must find an object of blame: for example, the 5 people in front should not have appeared on the railway, and the 1 person in the back completely believed that there should be no cars passing by that railroad track, then The driver's choice should be (but it is by no means the so-called correct choice) to let the car go on and kill 5 people (because they took risks for their actions, which is also the due consequence of the accident itself), if he changes course, It is to murder that innocent person.

The principle Kiritsugu implements is to abandon the few and save the many.

Then the scene continued to be extreme, if a few people on board entangled Kiritsugu and forced him to save himself, what would Kiritsugu do? The Holy Grail gave Kiritsugu the answer in his heart, that is to kill a few people. If the saved majority were divided into two groups, and the same extreme situation reappeared, then Kiritsugu would continue to implement the method of abandoning the minority to save the majority, and he would not hesitate to implement it by killing the minority.

As a result, it is possible that more people will be rescued than killed. In fact, this is exactly the way Kiritsugu has always behaved, sacrificing a few people in order to save more people. Even sacrificing these few was not what he wanted.

Kiritsugu's idealism lies in his attempt to bear the lives of others. He is choosing what is good for human beings. Using Machiavellian methods, he quantifies all human beings into pawns, and their own ideals and emotions can be discarded, and then pursue a kind of optimize.

But the paradox is that he is making the overall optimal choice for everyone, but he is forced to see and admit the reality that his own way cannot save everyone. So he pins a hope of overcoming humanity and delusion that everyone is happy on the Holy Grail that can achieve any miracle, even if he himself does not know how to achieve it.

However, the Holy Grail's last words to Kiritsugu are very intriguing. "The way you know nothing cannot be contained in your wish." If you want to achieve your wish, it can only be realized through the way you know. And the so-called miracle cannot exist in the pursuit of which I know nothing, but something that I set up a wish but failed to achieve by myself.

People can't pursue what they don't know.

The scene where the Holy Grail was shown to Kiritsugu was Kiritsugu's wish.

What is Kiritsugu's wish?

peace forever.

And what is the peace achieved with this polluted Holy Grail, or with the means Kiritsugu himself knows?

Kill all the people in the world, and if there is no one, there will be no fighting, and then there will be peace?

This was the answer given to Kiritsugu by the Holy Grail—if he wanted to fulfill his wish with it, it would be to destroy mankind.

But this is not what Kiritsugu wants at all, it runs counter to his wish.

It can be said that at that moment, his wish disappeared, his means were denied, and his belief collapsed.

Of course, he rejected the Holy Grail - also a denial of himself. (to be continued)