Chapter 30 The fangs and stance of justice(1/2)
Heaven is an unknown place.
The third level: Beri'ah. This level of world is also called the "world of creation". It marks the first transition from infinite to finite. In Beri'ah, the infinite light of Eden begins.
Exuded through specific [divine qualities].
Many facilities of the Ethics Committee are located in [Belia], and Xia Xiu will participate in the Monte Carlo incident trial as a corrector within the Ethics Committee today. It should be explained here that the specific job of the corrector is to be responsible for all aspects of the investigation within the Kingdom of Heaven.
Propose corrections to this unreasonable behavior and revise Eden's sometimes too inhumane mass extermination program.
Well, Xia Xiu is not surprised at all that he can serve on the ethics committee. Every sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven will be assigned a committee position by Eden. After all, among other core institutions, the ethics committee is relatively weak. For the sake of inter-agency
Due to the relative balance of power, an angel with a special nature like the Sword Bearer will naturally serve on the committee as a bargaining chip for balance.
At the same time, it is also the responsibility of the committee to monitor whether the sword holder loses control.
Xia Xiu's spiritual projection stood in front of the door of Judgment Hall No. 13 in [Beria]. When he projected to the [Unknown Land] through spiritual sublimation, he felt the intense and unusually distorted perception outside the trial hall.
[Vashak] A wave of fluctuations came from his body, which was the Time Demon's natural reaction to [Time Element].
The perception of time here is distorted by Eden. Here, as long as Eden wants, you can hold meetings for a month, while outside time only passes one day.
However, it is rare to have such a long meeting. If such a long meeting is held, most people's brains will explode. After all, Eden's distortion is not a true distortion of time. If it is a true distortion of time, for Eden
The price-performance ratio is too low, and the resources consumed are not directly proportional to the returns.
The essence of this distortion of time is a distortion of perception, which is similar to the smell of wool coming from a sheep.
"You are Hugh Abraham. I am Robert Felden, the chairman of the Ethics Committee. I am really asking you to take time to attend the trial today. This should not delay your schedule. You are a very busy person now. Recently
Several extraordinary newspapers, mainly [Wandman Newsletter], and other national extraordinary media are reporting on your deeds."
Not long after Xia Xiu entered the trial hall, he saw a gentle and elegant gentleman in his fifties walking towards him.
Robert Felden stood in front of Xia Xiu. He was of moderate height. His age in his fifties had brought slight wrinkles and a hint of silver to his cheeks. His eyes were dark in color and surrounded by a light ring.
The wrinkles prove the traces left by time on his face. His hair is mainly black, but mixed with a few strands of white hair, neatly combed behind his head.
Felden has a slim but well-proportioned figure. He wears a crisp black suit. The suit jacket is buttoned accurately, showing a rigorous image. The shirt is pure white, with a neat collar and a black tie.
It was a sharp contrast. His shoes were also black, shiny and flawless, and they were obviously well taken care of.
"It won't be delayed, President Felden. There are always so many things, and they won't become less immediately just because I stop." The blond young man smiled and stretched out his right hand to shake the gentleman's hand.
"That's good, please come with me, and we'll talk while we walk."
Feilden motioned to Xia Xiu to follow him, and then he led Xia Xiu toward the interior of the trial hall and the venue for this trial.
"Due to the nature of the work of the Kingdom of Heaven itself and the usual way of doing things, many people think that it is a joke that the Kingdom of Heaven has an ethics committee. Or they just know about the existence of the committee, but think that we are just a bunch of trash and a laughing stock. A bunch of nothings.
It's meaningless, a temporary worker who only stamps "agree" but never dares to speak out against it.
How many Ethics Committee members does it take to change a lightbulb? Not one! The Ethics Committee can't change anything, they can't interfere with the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jokes like this appear on various extraordinary forums. They are always laughing at our various behaviors. For example, today - the committee recalled the Disaster Messenger, the Three Crowns, who was busy performing Honkai management tasks and saving the world.
Hugh Abraham, king, regicide, fourth sword-bearer in heaven.
And our purpose of recalling him is to let him come to a meeting to judge a prisoner he captured. And during the trial, we will most likely not execute the entity, and to some extent we will even
I agree with some of his ideas..."
Robert Felden, who was walking in front of the blond young man, opened the door of the courtroom in front of him. His face showed a little bit of embarrassment, as if he was sorry for this matter.
"I'm so sorry, but this is necessary. Heaven and angels protect humans from abnormalities and gods, and we protect heaven and angels from themselves. We judge what heaven should and should not do.
We balance good and evil so that, generally and in the long run, evil is reduced to a minimum. Even if it is cumbersome, even if it is pedantic, even if it is ridiculous, we have no choice in this regard... Yes, what a wonderful irony
, isn’t it?”
"So, just one time is enough, just one time. We hope that the fourth sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven can experience our work."
The door of the court was pushed open, and the deep eyes of the chairman of the ethics committee looked directly at the blond young man, who smiled in his golden eyes:
"That's how it should be, that's how it should be. It's not ridiculous."
After saying that, Xia Xiu stepped into the court. This was his first time to participate in an ethics trial by the ethics committee.
Today, for the first time, he will feel one of the many issues faced by the Ethics Committee, the core institution of the Kingdom of Heaven: the ethics of morality and justice.
The interior of the courtroom is filled with a solemn and majestic atmosphere. A huge chandelier hangs on the high ceiling, emitting a soft yellow light, illuminating the entire courtroom. The walls are hung with light-colored wallpaper and are surrounded by dark wooden walls.
The panel is inlaid with golden patterns. On one side of the panel, the national emblem hangs, demonstrating the sanctity and majesty of the law.
This place is very similar to a court in this world, except that the person sitting on the bench is not a judge, but the incarnation of the heavenly think tank, Eden.
The light ball-shaped Eden floats on the judge's bench. This is of course not its true body, but just one of its numerous vests.
There is only the defendant's seat here, and there is a main prisoner standing on the seat. He is one of the main prisoners who planned the Monte Carlo Anti-Curtain Movement and the former chief supervisor of the Monte Carlo Financial Supervisory Authority: Francis Delacroix.
Delacroix's hands were bound by a ball of light, but he was neatly dressed.
The reason why he was able to stand in the trial hall was because in the cognitive scan of Eden and the ethical system test of the Ethics Committee, some of his actions were not illegal. His soul and the fundamental purpose of his actions were indeed
It is for the extraordinary independence of the nation and people of Monte Carlo.
This is his view of justice.
[The ethics corrector is already in place——]
[The Clerk of the Kingdom of Heaven is in place——]
[The ethics committee is in place——]
[The Ethics Committee is officially online!]
When Xia Xiu stood at his corrective seat, Eden announced that the trial had begun.
"You..." Delacroix looked at the blond young man with a hint of horror. The sequelae of being infected by the elements made him feel as if he was seeing those indescribable things again when he looked at the blond young man. His stomach started to feel
Cramping is an instinctive reaction caused by fear.
[Emergency reaction detected, immune memu injection started——]
Delacroix only felt a pair of barbs protruding from the light that bound him with his hands. Along with a slight pain, he felt that the symptoms of fear began to slowly subside.
"It seems that I have brought you a very bad experience." The blond young man smiled at Delacroix.
Delacroix, whose fear began to subside partially, raised his head and glanced at the trial court. His eyes swept across the gentle ball of light on the chair, followed by the Clerk of Heaven who participated in the trial through a virtual projection, and the members of the committee responsible for the trial this time.
Feilden, finally, his eyes fell on the blond young man in the correction position.
"It seems that the reason why I was not executed immediately is because of the ineffective core institution of the Kingdom of Heaven that we have always laughed at when we were students... However, I should not be let go so easily."
"Well, indeed, in fact, the administrative agencies of the Kingdom of Heaven are mainly the Resolution Assembly, the Ethics Committee, and the Records and Information Security Management Department fully managed by Eden; these three have the power of life and death to decide whether you live or die.
, I actually don’t want you to ask meaningless questions about what gives the Kingdom of Heaven such power; from a crude and fundamental point of view, this question is because the Kingdom of Heaven has a bigger fist, so it means whatever it says. From a philosophical point of view,
, is the basic power of the Kingdom of Heaven given by the fundamental characteristics of [human supremacy] in the world of extraordinary quantification - the Kingdom of Heaven has the basic power to act on behalf of the will of all mankind.”
Robert Felden, who served as a member of the trial committee, explained to the prisoner.
"So, what is this trial for? You are right about me being arrested by you. You already have all the right to explain..."
"No, no, it's different. You still don't understand ethics and the significance of this trial. If we were really 100% correct, there would be no rebellion among the leadership at the resolution assembly, and we wouldn't be stupid enough to waste time with
You are arguing here, what we want is the root, the root of the problem, the ethical issue based on justice." Felden clapped his hands and said something that caught Delacroix a little off guard.
[Beep——]
[The clerk issued a yellow warning to the ethics committee. They think your words, deeds, and rhetoric are slightly inappropriate——]
Feilden straightened his clothes as if nothing had happened. He seemed to be used to this kind of thing.
Xia Xiu, who was watching from the sidelines, was thinking: This old man is kind of cool.
"Now. Let's get back to the point. What do you think your crime is?"
"I don't think I'm guilty."
"Very well, this is the basis of what we are going to discuss. You know, the Kingdom of Heaven has an abstract and conceptual recording habit of recording "The Pan-Heroic History of Humanity". Your behavior conforms to one of these to some extent."
Laws of behavior.”
"I thought that anyone who disobeyed the Kingdom of Heaven was unjust." Delacroix smiled, with a sarcastic smile.
"There are so many people who are disobedient to the Kingdom of Heaven. You think we are doing everything right. Do you know what is humane? What is right and wrong, what is abnormal and cruel? No one asks this kind of question every day.
Asked about retirement.
I have seen too many similar things like yours. Most people were crushed on the spot without even having a chance to speak, because your behavior is dangerous on a general level.
But the motivation for your actions is not like this. Moreover, we have made the mistake of standing in the shadows and acting as butchers before."
The chairman of the ethics committee looked at Delacroix and said:
"Everyone has an inviolability based on justice, which cannot be exceeded even in the name of the overall interests of society. Therefore, justice denies that it is justified to deprive some people of their freedom in order to share greater interests.
and does not recognize that the greater benefits enjoyed by the many more than compensate for the sacrifices imposed on the few.”
"It sounds too abstract to say this. We assume justice in a utilitarian nature: in the overall human society, including extraordinary people, all people recognize certain behavioral norms as binding in their mutual relationships, and make themselves
Most of the behavior follows them.
And the reason why they are followed is because for mankind as a whole, they are cutting a big pie, and each of them prefers a larger share to a smaller share. And this creates a conflict of interest, which
To be continued...