Before long, someone rebutted his views.
"I am a scion of an aristocratic family, and I already know some of what Sage Fang discussed with the head of the Kong Family. One of Sage Fang's views shook me deeply: we must broaden the scale on which we examine problems, continually broadening it until we reach the limits of our understanding. When we judge things across the entire historical timeline of the Human Race, we discover that our ancestors who practiced slash-and-burn agriculture might not have accepted our wearing fine robes, that our ancestors in Shang and Zhou might not have wanted to abolish slavery, and that our ancestors before Sage Kong also believed only a select few deserved an education. And just a few days ago-no, even now, and for a considerable time to come-there were still people who believed women should not participate in the Imperial Examination. But I will conclude my reply by quoting Sage Fang's Three Insufficiencies."
"Changes in Heaven are insufficient cause for fear! Ancestral precedent is insufficient grounds for emulation! The words of others are insufficient cause for concern!"
Then someone else struck back at the first lengthy post.
"If I were a woman whose father died fighting the Demon Barbarians, and I had to toil in workshops and fields to avoid selling myself to a brothel, leaving me no time to study, then yes, I would indeed complain. But what would I complain about? Would I complain about those brothel women? No! Why? It's simple: their hearts suffer more than mine! Do you understand? Working in workshops and fields is painful, but it is my body that suffers. My spirit, my heart, would at most be weary. I support myself. I am a whole person. I might occasionally feel that life is bitter, but