Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“This case has lasted almost a decade, because in federal law, the definition of ‘murder' is indeed 'unlawful deprivation of life of a natural person', and the law does not explicitly stipulate that ghosts belong to ‘natural persons' and that ghosts do not have ‘life', coupled with the enormity of the forces that supported ‘ghost repair of inhumans' at the time, even many ordinary citizens were unable to reverse old beliefs, so after the final trial, these counts of evil repair of murder were still not established, but were sentenced to a few minor misdemeanours. ”

“As a result, many people, including the little girl's brother, were provoked. ”

“More than a decade has passed since the little girl died of illness, and in the past her younger brother grew up to become a Confederate soldier. ”

“He fought valiantly in the battle against the 'Beast Tide Invasion', unfortunately sprayed with acid from a 'unicorn lizard', severely corroded his left eye, left arm and left foot. His left half body had to be replaced with a spiritual body and discharged as a 'disabled soldier'. ”

“As a 'disabled veteran', he had no material problems with his life, yet after his sister died, his soul was so exploited, tortured and destroyed by others, and the other party was acquitted of the heinous act, an injustice that burned the young disabled veteran in anger! ”

“This is a very intelligent young man who, over a decade of lawsuits, has taught himself all the courses on federal law, mastered great debate skills and, in the turbulence of 'ghost cultivation', has met a number of like-minded friends and has become a new force in society. ”

“After the final verdict that the murder was not guilty, the young man made an alarming decision. ”

“He sued the federal government directly! ”

“Specifically, it goes without saying that, at the end of the day, the ‘ghost repair inhumans' and ‘ghost repair people' factions held intense debates in the Supreme Court, which was also a live hearing open to the whole Federation, which was followed very closely by almost all federal citizens. ”

“At the final hearing, the angry young man threw the question I had just thrown, but he asked in a more aggressive manner. ”

“He stabbed himself in the hard chest with his cold left arm, that artificial crystal heart, asking questions —— am I human? ”

“With the development of technology, all sorts of magic treasures and divinity have improved, and more and more people are replacing damaged limbs with mechanical prosthetics. ”

“If a man's finger is broken and replaced with a metal fake finger, is he human? ”

Golden Moon heard God and nodded: “Of course! ”

Li Yao continued: "So, like this young man, fighting heroically, unfortunately injured, almost half of his body, including his heart, has been replaced by psychic powered machines, is he still human? ”

Golden Moon nodded: “Definitely! ”

“What if it's more than half? ”

"What if 51% of the body is a psychic object?" said Li Yao. What if 99% of the body is a psychic body? What if it's 99.99%? ”

That's a question he just asked.

At that time, Golden Moon could easily answer him with federal law, counting!

But now, after understanding the consequences of the previous causes, Golden Moon is caught in contemplation.

"'What this angry young man really wants to ask,' said Li Yao, 'is, what exactly is a man? ”

“A person with prosthetic limbs and 10 per cent of his body is considered a real ‘person', while a person with 99.99 per cent of his whole body has been transformed into a machine is not a real ‘person'. ”

“Then, between 10 and 99.99 per cent, there must be a certain threshold, human and non-human. ”

“Assuming this threshold is 50 per cent. ”

“Then a disabled veteran like him would be an individual if 49.99 per cent of his organs were replaced with psychic powered machines. ”

“If he's very unlucky, the ‘unicorn lizard’ throws up another bunch of acid saliva on him, most likely he has 50.01% of his organs, and wants to replace it with a psychic prosthetic limb, then he's not a human? ”

“Obviously, this assertion is absurd, and such a 'threshold' is unlikely to exist, either 50 per cent or 90 per cent! ”

“Even the brain could not be a criterion for judging human beings and non-human beings, because at that time, federal chip repair techniques were well developed, and many people, after severe brain damage, would implant repair chips in their brains, and of course they were human beings. ”

“So 99.99% of peripheral organs are replaced by mechanical objects, also ‘people’! ”

“So, from 99.99% to 100%, is there such a threshold? ”

“Assuming that a disabled veteran is too seriously injured to retain only 0.01 per cent of his brain cells, all the rest of his body parts have been replaced with psychic objects, according to the theory just now he is a human being and can enjoy the rights of a normal human being. ”

“What if instead of 0.01% of brain cells, 0.001%, 0.0001%? ”

“This number can be reduced indefinitely until it is completely zero, where exactly should the so-called 'threshold' be divided? Isn't it ridiculous to say that 0.00000001% of brain cells are still alive, even if they're human, otherwise, even if they're ghosts? ”

“Didn't the so-called 'ghost repair' mean that 100% of the organs were damaged and replaced with psychic objects? So, what's the essential difference between them and people who replace 99.99% of their organs with mechanical objects? ”

“The angry young man, in a series of questionings, spoke silently throughout the Tribunal. ”

“Even all the citizens of the Federation sitting in front of the screen watching the live broadcast of this trial have begun to think deeply about the nature of the so-called ‘man' and what it is. ”

“This case has had a profound impact on the subsequent development of a series of federal laws and policies. ”

“In addition to rejecting the law, the young man continued to visit senior members of the Association of Disabled Veterans, eventually gaining the support of the entire Association of Disabled Veterans, and even the entire Federal Army! ”

“The logic is simple: even if the wilderness is initially calmed, the Federal Army and the demons continue to face small-scale clashes and may even face future wars with the bloody demons, so both the Federal Army and the Realists are among the highest mortality rates in the Federation. ”

“The spirits of the mendicators are strong, it is not necessary to say that even the Confederate Army is a young man with strong blood, strong spirits. After death, they retain ghosts and have a higher chance of turning into ghosts than ordinary people. ”

“Isn't it ridiculous that a federal soldier who struggles to kill for his country, but unfortunately sacrifices it and turns it into a ghost repair, loses all his rights, and others can ravage, torture and enslave him at will without being sanctioned by a little law? ”

“As a result, the Federal Army and the major cultivation sects have gradually turned their backs on the young side, and the tide of thought in society as a whole has gradually reversed, supporting more and more citizens of the 'ghost cultivation', and the 'ghost cultivation' sect has slowly become a very small minority. ”

“After all, life has had a certain chance of turning into a ghost since ancient times. Everyone has to think about the future. ”

“Eventually, in this case, the federal government lost! ”

“Two years later, the Federal Government introduced the Equal Rights for Ghosts Act, which defines, for the first time in the legal sense, ghosts of independent will as‘ natural persons', also citizens of the Federation, with all rights and obligations, protected by the federal army and practitioners! ”

“After more than a hundred years of integration, the living and dead of the Federation are now fully integrated, and there will be no more discriminatory ghost repairs, treating ghost repairs as something different. ”

Golden Moon heard the fluctuations and suddenly thought of something: "What about the evil repairs that killed the little girl? Now, should they be convicted of murder? ”

“No.”

A mysterious smile appeared on Li Yao's face, “The law is not retroactive. Their murder charges have been ruled not guilty in the final trial. How can they sanction past charges after a new law has been enacted? ”

“In fact, several of the charges for which they were convicted were minor, and a year before the introduction of the Ghost Equality Act, they were released from prison and rejoiced. ”

“Okay!”

Golden Moon frowned, somehow regretting this old case more than a hundred years ago.

Ever since she became a human, her emotions seem to be getting richer.

However, she thought the master was smiling very strangely. She moved her heart and said, “Is there a story in here? ”

Li Yao chuckled: “There's no story, but these scumbags were killed by several of the young man's comrades half a year after his release, a month before the promulgation of the Ghostly Equal Rights Act! ”

"" I thought since the young man had chosen to appeal, he wanted to use the law as a weapon. I didn't think he had broken the law and committed lynching. ”

"It's true that lynching is not necessarily a violation of the law," said Li Yao. "The federal army is the defender of the state and naturally the defender of the law. How can we know that the law is being violated? ”

“These young fellow combatants, although indicted, were eventually acquitted, and their murder charges were equally not established! ”

Golden Moon doesn't understand: "Why, is the court pressured by the Confederate forces? ”

“'Of course not,' said Li Yao. Because, technically, before the Ghosts' Equal Rights Act was officially enacted, these young people's comrades were ghosts, not ‘people’. ”

Golden Moon: “Ah? ”

"'Understood?" said Li Yao. These young men's comrades, after fighting and killing on the battlefield, died mightily, but left behind the ghost repair of the gods! ”

“The Federation did not recognize the human rights of ghosts until the Equal Rights for Ghosts Act was enacted. ”

“Ghosts are not human beings, so killing a ghost is not ‘murder', which is the basis for those evil repairs to be acquitted. ”

“The problem is, people kill ghosts, not murders, ghosts kill people? ”

“After this revenge case, people looked back at federal law and were somewhat surprised to discover that the Federation has been fighting demons since its inception, treating demons as the most fundamental threat, so there are many legal provisions against demons like cow hair, but not one against ‘ghost killing'! ”

“It's also very understandable that even in the ancient world, it's impossible for the government to set up rules on how to judge ghost killings, right? Back then, the cultivators were all responsible for the 'ghost-cutting demons'. The demons killed people and their own monks, priests and cultivators went to exterminate them. ”

“But now, it is a new era, a society governed by the rule of law. It is about a country governed by the rule of law, cultivating sects must also do according to the law, cultivating according to the law, according to the righteousness of the law! ”

“Prior to the enactment of the Ghosts' Equal Rights Act, these lost comrades were not legally ‘people’, and how could they be convicted of ‘murder'? ”