Uity69
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- Oct 19, 2023
Pretty much. Getting involved with them is always asking for trouble. In the case of the video, the dude killing the animal was obviously bad and next chapter have you avenge it after the original guy turned to evil. It's pretty clear after the dream warning the person was ungrateful for the warning and did way worse than he should have.
It's an actual case of no media literacy.
The fox story could be inspired from a ancient chinese philosopher, Wang Yangming (1472 - 1529). In one of his moral code/moral law he wrote called ''Township Covenants of Southern Jiangxi,'' he explained that ''The distinguishment between good and evil came from a single thought of oneselves.''
So today in most places if you have thoughts of commiting a crime but didn't actually perform the crime, you are not guilty. But in Wang's mind, he thinks that ''If you have evil thoughts, it's only matter of time till you commit evil deed. So you must be corrected before it's too late.'' Wang wanted to encourage people to accept their own flaws and change themselves. He believe as long you have good in your heart, you can overcome evil within you.
To apply this to the Fox story, the man helped her because he has good thought. But after one bad dream, his paranoia (evil thought) overcame him and made him kill the Fox girl.
I think this man only understand surface level of Wang Yangming's teaching. The man was like ''I saw an evil dream, so I will kill it to ease my evil (paranoia).'' But he fails to see that the evil is not from the Fox, the evil is coming from himself. He is the one with the problem, so he should have fix his inner self instead of accusing an innocent animal who hasn't done anything bad so far.
Too bad the game don't explain the historical philosophy within the game. It might be common knowledge for them chinks, but for western market it's hard to releate to the story because the game really expect you to have good understanding of ancient chinese culture and read/watch Journey to the West (pretty good book tbh, but still BS requirement for most gamers who are only here for the game itself).