"Then what about a great landowner? Even if he doesn't actively set out to be a villain, his power is immense, and he will inevitably do evil without thinking-persecuting farmers while annexing land, inflicting private punishments on his servants, or hoarding goods to drive up prices and disrupt the market. What will such a person do? He will inevitably find every means to make the law facilitate his annexation of land, every means to lessen the punishment of death, and every means to lower the maximum penalty for inflating prices and disrupting the market. So it should not be difficult to understand what I said earlier: once officials obtain power from their sovereign, they will do everything possible to avoid being sentenced to death themselves. They will inevitably enact bandit law."
Fang Yun smiled. "Good. That concludes our discussion of justice law and bandit law. You probably think all descendants of the Bandit Race are evil. But just as degenerates and members of the Rebel Species can emerge among us morally upright people of China, their race will also produce people who deeply recognize their own problems. They will strive to improve and avoid becoming the sort of people their ancestors were. After all, people do progress. Yet a considerable number of them not only fail to restrain themselves, but commit acts of banditry even more brutal than their ancestors'! Moreover, the Bandit Race is inherently hostile toward kindhearted races. Why is that?"
"Because they occupied their lands and established their race and nation through evil means. They cannot accept a race that founded its nation without resorting to such methods. It is just like a good person surrounded by a gang of vicious criminals: he will inevitably face hostility and oppression, and may even be killed."
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