Chapter 76 <Farmers always have to pay>
Before the democratic revolution in Tibet, the reactionary slave owners did everything possible to intensify the exploitation of the peasants. In the Ula servant system, it was stipulated that the peasants should invite lamas to recite hail scriptures every year to pray for avoiding hail disasters.
they said:
If there is no hail disaster in the year after chanting, the farmers have to pay money to express their gratitude;
If there is still hail after chanting, it means that the farmers are dishonest and must be fined;
During the year, after chanting sutras, there will be hail or no hail;
Therefore, farmers always have to pay.
This is the application of a dilemma to blackmail farmers.The so-called dilemma reasoning is a hypothetical selective reasoning that deduces a conclusion based on the logical properties of two hypothetical premises and one selective premise.Judging from the content of the reasoning, it first proposes two situations for people to choose, and then concludes that no matter which situation they choose, it will put the chooser in a difficult situation.
Dilemmas are right and wrong.The wrong dilemma usually manifests itself as: either the situation of the things asserted by the premise of the discourse is not comprehensive, or the premise of the hypothesis is false.The reasoning above is a dilemma based on the premise of the sufficient conditional judgment and the selective judgment. Although the form of the reasoning is correct, the two hypothetical premises are false, that is, there is no connection between the antecedent and the antecedent.
Specifically, whether or not hailstones fall is a natural phenomenon, and has nothing to do with the prayers of the peasants and the sincerity of their hearts.Therefore, there was no hailstorm, and the farmers did not need to pay money to reward them, and the hailstorm was not because the farmers were dishonest.Therefore, the above-mentioned dilemma is wrong, it is a sophistry imposed on others by using the peasants' superstition.