同情苦难很简单，同情意识形态则很难。於是，人们带着虽说遭到误导、却多少值得称许 的意图，严肃又感性地将任务一肩扛起、导正他们所看到的罪恶。但是，他们所作所为， 并不足以使疾病痊癒，疾病反而因此拖得更长更久，或许我该这麽说，他们的所作所为， 正是这个疾病的病原之一。 好比说，他们试着消灭贫穷，有些人觉得让穷人饿不死就够了；也有比较激进的一派，认 为还要能够逗他们开心才行。 但这些都称不上有解决问题，而只是让难搞的问题更加难搞。适当的作法是重新架构这个 社会，一个让贫穷不再可能的社会。但道德上的利他主义，正好成为这个适当作法的绊脚 石，正如同对奴隶最好的主人就是最糟糕的主人，对奴隶好的主人使得在社会中受苦之人 没有机会了解到这个体系有多恐怖，也使得思索社会问题的人，看不清到底问题出在哪里 。所以说，今天在英国，伤害社会最深的人，恰好就是最想做好事的那些。不过终於出现 了这样的一群人使大家眼睛为之一亮，这群人受过教育、出身於贫穷的伦敦东区，了解问 题、也了解人性，呼吁大家收起诸般善行，因为这样的善行只会让社会更趋下流、更趋堕 落。他们对极了，慈善乃罪恶渊薮。 节录自王尔德着《社会主义下的个人灵魂》 ...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease. They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor. But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life —educated men who live in the East End—coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins. ---Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism -- 法律的乱源： 法官想当神 白痴想当法官 神想装白痴 http://blog.yam.com/juotung --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 122.116.182.20 ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 19:49) ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 19:52) ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 19:53) ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 19:57) ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 19:59) ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 20:01) ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/09 20:06) 如果去掉「有」，变成这样「但这些都称不上解决问题」 这就会出现歧义 到底是方法对了，只是没做好 还是方法根本就错了 原文的not a solution 指的应该是说方法根本就错了 或许再加个「在」：「称（算）不上有在解决问题」？ 嗯～我了解你的意思 这样解的确直接的上下文很连贯 当然用字可以再斟酌 但基本上我仍然认为它是 with their suffering & with their thought 理由是从整体的文意来看 贫穷真正的问题是在於穷人本身没有穷人忧患意识 他们对於处境的认知是有问题的 但没有人同情这一点 另一方面 如果大家觉得「同情」某种想法、意识的表述很奇怪 一定程度上也正好证明了王尔德的说法「大家要能这样想很不容易」是对的 ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/12 00:02) 「并未解决」还是会有歧义哎 我还是想要把「方法对、只是没做好」和「方法根本就不对」两者区分开来 ※ 编辑: juotung 来自: 122.116.182.20 (01/12 05:33)