Chapter 38 <If I eat it, it means he eats it>

There is a folk story: Once upon a time, a rich man was invited to a banquet in a foreign country, and he took a long-term worker hired by his family to serve him as a servant.When he arrived at the door of the master's house, the rich man went in alone, leaving the long-term worker outside.The rich man ate and drank a lot at his master's house, and he had long forgotten the long-term workers outside the door. After the rich man was full of wine and food, he bid farewell to the master and came out. The master sent the rich man outside the door. When he saw the long-term worker standing outside, he said to the rich man apologetically: Hey!I don't know your servant is still outside, why don't you send him in for something to eat?

The rich man shook his head and said disapprovingly: "It's nothing, if I eat it, it's like he eats it." Hearing this, the long-time worker was very angry. Without a word, he pulled the horse over to the rich man, helped him onto the horse, and followed behind. When he came to a big river, the river was deep and there was no bridge. When he came, it was the long-term workers who carried the rich man on his back.Now Chang Gong had a plan and jumped into the water to swim over by himself.The rich man hurriedly asked the long-term worker to come and carry him, but the long-term worker pretended not to hear.

The rich man had no choice but to jump into the river by himself, but he couldn't swim at all. After entering the water, he panicked and called the long-term worker to come and save him. Changgong replied calmly on the other side: It’s nothing, if I swim over, it means you swim over. Then, a torrent swept the rich man away. I ate and he ate. The predicates of these two judgments are the same and the subject is different. The subject reflects different objects. Therefore, these are two fundamentally different judgments. They cannot replace each other, let alone draw an equal sign. . The rich man deliberately confused the two, and made the sophistical conclusion that if I eat, he eats, in order to justify his abuse of long-term workers.Changgong did the same thing, making the judgment that if I swim over, it means you swim over, so as to justify his behavior of not saving the rich man.Changgong's argument is equally absurd, but he learned it from the rich man.This is to use the way of the person to treat the person's body.