The bottom line of morality is the restriction of people's desires and behaviors. One's desires and behaviors should not hurt the interests of others. This basic morality is the condition for maintaining social balance.
Despotic societies and ideal societies of human require higher morality, and extremely noble morality is likely to break the principle of equality and throw society out of balance.
For example, there is a kind of morality that requires people to sacrifice themselves, to be utterly devoted to others. As a result, the balance lever between people becomes very inclined. Some people specialize to sacrifice and devote, while others specialize to get benefit from others. therefore, noble morality is easily used by politicians, rulers, religions, and groups to maintain an unequal system.
The most thorough sacrifice and dedicated example is the eunuch system in China. To allay the emperor's fears about the infidelity of his many wives, all the men in the palace had to sacrifice themselves and cut off their genitals.
In the sixties of China, when class struggle was at its peak, morality was also up at its peak. The moral code marked by Lei Feng requires people to be the tool of taming, sacrificing themselves, not self-interested, and specifically helping others.
First of all, Lei Feng, who has been praised as unselfish and utterly devoted to others, is not as warm as the spring breeze to all people. He is cruel and heartless to the enemy. That means this Lei Feng is absolutely nonhumanistic to the sixty million Chinese people who were declared as the enemies of the communist party and struggling to survive on the road of life and death. Secondly, how can a person calling himself unselfish, being utterly devoted to others have so many photos of doing good things? Putting out a gesture of helping the old lady to walk, let others take pictures, what is the motivation for a person who has already eliminated selfishness?
Learning from Lei Fei regarding the person in a lower level of the society is a very brutal matter. A man without any guarantee of human rights, if turning into the tame tool, has been asked unselfish, s utterly devoted to others, would be no different from the cattle and horses of the cultivated land... As a result, a moral movement became a stupefying movement. many workers were asked to work without pay, day and night, under the slogan of Lei Feng. And these ordinary workers, even working24 hours without sleep, tired to death, will not have lei Feng one percent lucky.
At the same time, this moral standard also deprives the workers of the reasonable right to seek help from the leaders because of difficulties. I saw a worker who asked a help from an officer and has been rejected by the words of learning Lei Feng, regardless of the remuneration, the face of desolation and resentment.
The worker who was chosen as a Lei Feng's pacesetter often had special backgrounds. When I was on the farm, the team's learning Lei Feng's pacesetter was always arriving half an hour earlier than others to sweep the field at the team door. He swept slowly while he was waiting for people to come, he kept peeping with his eyes to check if people saw him. This is the same thing as posing for a photo of helping an old lady to cross the road. The ordinary worker who is not a Lei Feng's pacesetter sweeps the floor overnight will not be praised by the leader.
There is no absolute moral meaning in learning Lei Feng's model. His moral destiny is completely determined by his leadership. Zhang Hongchi who has been praised living Lei Fen disappeared after the Cultural Revolution, just because he had misjudged the direction and turned to the army and the rebels in the middle of the Cultural Revolution. When the capitalists come back to regain their power, the most hated by the capitalists is these people, which is equivalent to raising their own dog, and in turn biting the master.
If a high morality can cause hypocrisy and folly of society, how should a reasonable moral standard be defined? It is likely to be some intermediate point between the moral bottom line and the noble morality. That is to say, the moral bottom line is a necessary condition, and high morality is an optional condition. And noble morality should be voluntary, stress-free, and non-reward. Society does not have the right to force a person to sacrifice his or her rights with noble morality, otherwise, it will become a tool to stupefying and lead social injustice.
It is precisely because of the hypocrisy of this ignorant morality, that the Chinese people, who have been baptized by the Cultural Revolution, once awakened from this kind of Lei Feng-style moral deception, they are like a flood that is closed in the gate, from suppressing humanity, breaking out and carry out a comprehensive reaction to morality with unstoppable momentum. Rewarding the foolishness in this moral name, they began to break with morality and became a beast with no ideals, no religion, and no moral material desire.
It is after a whole century of repeated tossing in China. Thousands of people have voluntarily and involuntarily sacrificed their lives. Finally at the end of the twentieth century, from the hypocrisy ideal world of ignorant morality, Chinese people jumped to the jungle world of fill of corruption and promiscuous, embarked on an anti-moral no return.