Silence

(English version of this article see below)

不知為何突然有這種想法。.

人類的本位主義實在非常嚴重。最近Animate在播放妖怪人間這部動畫；看了之後讓我很想上漫吐板大吐一番。

動畫的內容不外乎，裡面三個主角堅持相信只要保護人類就是正義，總有一天會被人類所接受－－問題來了：為何非要保護人類不可？如果是這樣那也就罷了，他們高興就好；為何非要成為人類不可？做自己不行嗎？有個朋友對我說：很簡單，因為這部動畫是人類做的。人類的毛病大肆發作罷了。

一樣是生命，殺人者死，那麼殺貓殺狗也應該比照辦理；不是嗎。如果是為了維繫自身生命而殺，可以理解；因為獵食動物的不殺就等於是自殺，是自然律的定律；吃素者的罪或無罪並不會比吃葷者來得高明許多。

但是除此之外的殺我都不能接受。左京那批人的虐殺妖怪，跟靈界偵探時代的仙水忍乾淨俐落的解決妖怪，殊途同歸，其實是一樣的事情。

當然幽遊的結局揭露了，妖怪邪惡說算是靈界為了把持人類的某種陰謀，造成了擁有靈力的人類與妖怪之間的裂痕（即使將靈界會把抓到的妖怪洗腦成為邪惡妖怪的行為考量進去，實際上妖怪殺人的比例，仍然比人殺人低太多了）。那麼仙水的行為這麼比喻好了－－

有個人被環保局洗腦，加上住家附近野貓太多，堅持相信殺光野貓才是正確的，四處殺貓，見貓就殺。這個人即使本質純潔，也有他的恐怖之處在。

甚至我突然覺得，如果仙水打從一開始就沒有遇到樹，「也許反而能夠承受得住人類虐殺妖怪的那一幕」（前文提過了，因為這兩者之間其實是一樣的，只是殺妖怪的手段骯不骯髒罷了）。

與樹相遇，造就了仙水忍內心不可逆的裂縫；就好像有一天這個殺貓大隊隊員不小心撿到一隻野貓，還把野貓帶回去養。「無論再怎麼說服自己這隻野貓是特別的」，矛盾已經造成了。左京事件只是這個矛盾的引爆點罷了。當然環保局（以及人類本位主義份子）自然會大而化之地指控這隻野貓「腐化」了他們的殺貓大隊隊員。嗚呼哀哉。

我仍然認為萬惡的淵藪是靈界的所作所為，而不是仙水。他仍然可以算是純潔的－－只不過成人的仙水忍，並沒有跟高中的仙水忍本質相差甚大。「不管作為如何，本質仍然維持不變」，我想是純潔之人的特徵之一吧。如果樹在的話我想他會同意我。畢竟他一直喜歡著忍。


換句話說，其實過度的純潔本身也是一種邪惡；在歷史上因為戰爭而死亡的人，絕大多數是以上帝或阿拉之名被屠殺，並不是撒旦；而極左派（共產黨）與極右派（法西斯）最原始的中心思想，竟是人類原本是純潔善良，可以為大眾（共產）或國家的存在（極右）而奉獻自己。忍的恐怖在於忍非常純潔；而忍，一直都是很純潔的。

與純潔之人相遇時敬請小心。


I don't know why I had this feeling suddenly.

Human beings are egoistic to ridiculous extent. For example this cartoon serie called "Humane Demons (or something like that)" I had been watching has it that the main characters, namely the three demons, think it is justice itself to protect human beings. OK, if they like the feeling, I have nothing to object to that. Yet I have serious doubt about their wanting to BECOME HUMANS themselves, leading to questions such as "what's wrong being a demon? What it is that's SO good about being humans?" My friend simply replied: "because this cartoon is made by humans, and humans are very, very egocentric."

We know those who take another human's life must die; should all lives be equal, to be fair, those who take animals' lives should die as well. However, I do not oppose to eating animals, for it is suicidal of a predatory animal NOT to kill for survival, which is the law of nature. Being an vegetarian taking plants' lives for living is just the same with the non-vegetarians who take animals'.

But I do not accept ANY reason besides that to kill any lives. Therefore, Sakyo's killing weak demons for fun and young Sensui's for justice, if you look at them at the deepest level, are the SAME behavior.

Of course by the end of YuYu Hakusho we realize that it is Reikai's conspiracy to create an illusion that all demons are bad, so as to take control over human world, so that humans who have power become natural enemies for the demons. Yet even if we take the demons brainwashed by Reikai to be evil into consideration, still, the casualties by the hands of demons is far less than those by the hands of humans; hence we may look at Sensui this way--

There is a pure and nice young man educated by the government that all cats are bad. He sees so many cats in the area he lives, so he kills them all, believing it is right to kill cats. Even if he IS a nice good young man, there are muderous and fearful traces in him.

All of a sudden I feel that, if Sensui did NOT meet Itsuki at the first place, maybe he could have been able to take the brutal scenes in Sakyo's much easier than he does in the serie; because, as I said before, in the deepest level they had been doing the same thing, just that Sakyo had his dirty way of killing demons but Sensui with pure heart.

Coming across Itsuki creats an irreversible crack in Sensui's heart, just like the cat-killing young man must have been feeling self-contradictions when he picks up a stray cat and takes it home. No matter how he tries to convince himself that the stray cat he's taken is very special and different from other "evil" cats, the cracks inside his heart would only become bigger. The Sakyo incident is only a trigger for the cracks to finally collapse. Of course, Reikai and humans may call this process "corruption", since humans are selfish enough.

Nevertheless I do not consider Sensui evil. It is illusions Reikai has been creating to be blamed, not Sensui. He is very pure inside his heart, and no matter how he changes and what he does, he remains all the way the same as pure since he was in high school till he became adult. I think the unchangeableness is one characteristic of a pure human heart, and Itsuki, whose love for Sensui never changed as well, would agree with what I say here.

Human beings are so strange. If you look carefully, you may realize that being pure and chaste is also a form of evilness. For example, it is in the name of God, not Satan, that the greatest number of lives are tortured and slaughtered. It is the original ideas of Facism and Communism that hypothesize that the human natures are so good that humans are able to share everything or devote everything to the country. If you say Sensui is evil, that is only because he is pure-- too pure.

Beware when you meet a man of chastity.