The Mountain Ghost and Jiang Qiao faced each other from afar.
They were engaged in a conversation.
"What do you think?"
"Was I right? Those people you humans call wolves in human clothing are, at the end of the day, still human. You also acknowledge their human identity, don't you?"
The Mountain Ghost chuckled softly.
It felt no pressure whatsoever using a phrase like "wolves in human clothing," which carried implications about itself.
But this statement.
It had indeed struck at one of the contradictions in the conflict between humans and ghosts.
The Mountain Ghost looked no different from a human, except that it lacked humanity. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that it possessed only the evil part of human nature, without the part containing truth, goodness, and beauty.
Did this situation count as being human?
If not.
Then did murderers, executioners, and antiterrorists in human society count as human?
Emotionally speaking.
From a sentimental perspective.
Normal people would all curse them as worse than beasts.
But ultimately.
They merely treated them as abnormal humans, people whose consciences had been devoured by dogs.
However.
From an ethical and legal perspective.
He was still human.
Even if he was a murderer on the run, unless he was killed at the scene of the crime, an ordinary person who went and killed him would still be guilty of intentional assault or even intentional homicide.
This actually ran somewhat contrary to ordinary people's way of thinking.
From an ordinary person's perspective.
As a murderer, I killed him to uphold justice. Why should I still be held responsible?
This topic.
Also brought up a very classic joke.
Suppose.
A death-row prisoner was beaten to death with a stick by a family member who arrived at the execution ground one minute before