the marco polo project: 就事论事

小时候很喜欢看 Lu Xun 的文章，后来有一段时间，看了一些关于他为人的文章，很是反感，于是顺带也不喜欢他的文字了。不过后来，人再长大一些，觉得自己很是好笑，对我而言他只是一个作家，用他的文字来表达他的观点，我需要认同和不认同的，只不过是他的文字而已，为何要和他的为人联系在一起？再说了，他是一个怎样的人，我同样也是从别人的文字里面了解。

从小的教育，让我曾经有个习惯，把所有的事情和一个人的道德好坏联系在一起，或者第一时间先去 herauszufinden 动机。后来一个比我年长一点的朋友讲起这样一件事情：文化大革命的时候，实在找不出一个人的罪证，于是会质问对方，为何要在这个时间出门？为何要在这个时间去买菜？一定带有不可告人的目的。这个时候，被质问的人，真的无从 Erklärung，其实对方也根本不想听 Erklärung，因为他们认为自己已经找到了证据。我听完哈哈大笑，但是仔细一想，这不也是我有意无意会 begangen 的错误。

我也经常看到这样的 Frage：因为你存在道德问题，因为你的身份问题，因为你的为人关系，所以你没有 Qualifikation 发表看法，所以你说的话就是错的，在这种 Umständen 之下，是不可能进行讨论的，因为对方已经从道德高度，否定了你，abgelehnt 接受你。

如何学习就事论事，如何学习 aufzugeben 诛心的思维，改变总是站在道德高度 und zu kritisieren 别人的习惯，我还在努力中，不知道你呢？

Luqiu Luwei

Übersetzung

Judging things on their own merits

When I was little, I really liked Lu Xun’s writing, but later, at some stage, I read a few pieces about him as a person, and really disliked him, so after that, I no longer liked what he wrote. Then later still, I grew up again, and found myself quite ridiculous: for me, he was just a writer, and expressed his way of seeing the world with his writing, so what I needed to agree and disagree with was only what he wrote, why should it also be connected to him as a person? Beside, it’s from other people writing about him that I could understand what kind of a man he was.

In my childhood education, I developed a habit: connect everything to a person’s good or bad morals, or from the start, try to guess what their motivation is. Later, a friend slightly older than myself told me the following thing: during the Cultural Revolution, they couldn’t find any incriminating evidence against a certain person, so they started interrogating: Why did you go out at that particular time? Why did you go shopping at that particular time? You must have had some ulterior motive. The person interrogated really had no explanation for that, but the interrogator didn’t actually want any explanation at all, because they thought they already had all the evidence. I laughed when I heard this, but thinking about it retrospectively, I have to say this is a mistake I might have committed myself, intentionally or not.

I often come across this question: because of issues with your ethical position, because of issues with your identty, because of your relationships or character 因为你的为人关系, you’re not eligible to express your views, or what you’re saying is necessarily wrong. In such circumstances, discussion is impossible, because your counterpart has already taken the moral high ground, they have denied you access, they have refused to accept you.

How can we learn to judge things on their own merit, how can we learn to give up our tendency to condemn, and stop always taking a moral high-ground to criticise other people’s habits: I’m still working on it – I’m not sure about you.

Julien Leyre website