Sale of human milk to adults a sign of market-driven depravity

By Wan Lixin
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Thanks to this lack of clarification, some foot massages parlors are racing against time, offering crash courses on helping masseuses to deliver sexual pleasure for their clients.

In Confucian's Analects, it is said that if people are governed solely by the fear of law, they will try to avoid legal punishment, but lose their sense of shame.

Legal provisions are always limited. If you look around, most rogues or villains can prosper without having any brushes with the law.

When law is invoked to deter immoral behavior, that itself is a sign of moral depravity.

That's why it should be cause for alarm, rather than celebration, when adult children are compelled by law to pay regular visits to their parents, or/and that parents are forbidden to abuse their children.

Similarly, when employees are wary of providing sex for their superiors in exchange of official favors - for fear of legal prohibitions - our society is in great trouble.

Legal provisions have some limited value in regulating explicit violence, but their value is highly suspect in dealing with hidden, more harmful sins such as ingratitude, betrayal, cheating, lying, or recklessness.

The Chinese moral system centers on humility, frugality, and simplicity, but the market credo is dictating a moral code based on consumption as the highest ideal of this life. The confusion we find ourself in is only part of the consequence of this unqualified admiration of the market.

 

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