Chapter 17 <I don't want my share>

A bus drove to a certain station, and the people who got off the bus squeezed up like a swarm before the people who got off the bus finished.Suddenly, with a bang, a piece of glass was broken by a young man. The conductor said to him: Comrade, you broke the glass, you have to pay for it! The young man asked back: Why should I pay? The conductor said: If people's property is damaged, compensation should be made. The young man said confidently: I am a member of the people, and I also have a share of the people's property. There is no need to pay for it, and my share is no longer needed.

In our socialist country, the buses of state-owned enterprises are the property of the state and belong to the whole people.Therefore, the property of the people mentioned by the conductor, from a logical point of view, the term people expresses a collective concept. The so-called set concept is the concept reflecting the aggregate or group composed of many individual objects.The fundamental difference between the collective concept and the non-collective concept is that the attributes reflected in its connotation belong to the collective, not to individual molecules in the collective. For example, the judgment that the masses of the people are the creators of history means that the attribute of creators of history belongs to the aggregate of the masses of the people and not to individual elements among the masses of the people. No one among the masses of the people can say that history is created by him Creative.The non-collective concept is different, the attribute reflected by its connotation is possessed by every object in the class of things it reflects.

For example, the basic connotation of the concept of commodity is the labor product used for exchange, and this attribute is possessed by any kind of commodity.Since the people in the property of the people is a collective concept, the implication is that these properties belong to the group composed of all the people, not to individual persons among them. Therefore, as a member of the people, one should cherish public property very much so that it can be used to serve the interests of all the people, including oneself.If this is not the case, but if everyone destroys or appropriates these properties at will on the grounds that he is a member of the people, what is the property of the people?

Therefore, the sophistry of this young man is to deliberately confuse the difference between the concept of collection and the concept of non-collection.