Chapter 16 <Smoking should also be divided into two>

Lao Wang said to Lao Liu: You are a heavy smoker. It is not good for your health. I advise you to make up your mind to quit. Lao Liu said: You don't understand dialectics, everything has duality, there are advantages and disadvantages, and there are advantages and disadvantages.Everything is divided into two. Since smoking is a thing, it is also divided into two. There are disadvantages and benefits. How can we completely deny it? Materialist dialectics really believes that things are divided into two. It refers to the universality of contradiction, which means that any thing contains two contradictory aspects inside, which is the unity of opposites of the two.

As for how things are divided into two, this is the particularity of contradiction.In fact, the content of the two aspects of the contradiction is very extensive.For example, up and down, left and right, big and small, long and short, moving and still, fast and slow, success and failure, success and difficulty, cause and effect, truth and falsehood, production and consumption, etc., are all contradictions of two aspects. It is true that good and bad are also two aspects of a contradiction, but the two aspects of a contradiction are by no means limited to good and bad.Lao Liu deliberately narrowed the extension of the concept of dividing one into two, and attributed it to only two aspects, good and bad, in order to defend his bad smoking habit, which has the nature of sophistry.

Modern medicine has fully proved that smoking is harmful to the human body without any benefit.If you must evaluate smoking from the perspective of benefits, you can only say that through awareness and publicity of the harms of smoking, people can voluntarily quit smoking and prevent the majority of young people from learning to smoke.