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The happiness of majority & The unhappiness of the minority
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The happiness of the majority is based on the unhappiness of the minority.
I have known this sentence for many years, but I never think about it deeply.
These days, I learned a text called People who walks away from Omelas, whose theme is related to the sentence above. It really shocked me.
Actually we're so familiar with the phenomenon the sentence protrays that we always overlook it. When one person get the highest score on a test, without the unhappiness of students who get lower score than him, he'll hardly have a happy feeling. When we live in a big bright house, our happiness of owning it actually comes from the unhappiness of the poor people who cannot affort a house. We feel happy for being healthy and strong. That's also based on the unfortunately weak, disabled or even dying people.
Yeah, we, as human beings, have get used to that unwittingly. We just focus too much attention on our happniess and think little about the horrible contrary. But to tell the truth, the unhappiness of the minority is indispensable and essential for the happy, because once the balance of the happiness and unhappiness is broken, there won't be happiness any more. That is to say, if there is no unhappiness, it should be turned out that all people are happy. But is that possible? When that really happens at that time, how do the people surely know that they are happy?
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- Just at the beginning ,l don’t understand the sentence. But as you illustrate the meaning step by step, l gradually comprehend the intrinsic essence in the sentence. Though the sentence, l just get the other meaning:sometimes people should be satisfied with the present situation and value the current situation,so there are so many people in the world who still is living in severe environment. When we are under the hard surroundings, it is extremely useful to improve confidence.
