On closer inspection, most of these people wore stern, imposing expressions, and most stood behind Lin Xuanji.
The Three Dukes stood in a triangle, with the hundred officials arrayed behind them.
Lin Xuanji, for instance, stood behind the Grand Tutor.
At this moment, most of those speaking were people behind the Grand Tutor.
However, Lin Ke's words also won some people's approval.
"This young man's words make considerable sense."
"Blind filial obedience is wrong to begin with."
"If my father wants to kill me, should I defend myself or not?"
These people were all reasonable, and they rather admired Lin Ke.
Some of their remarks, for instance, perfectly illustrated why blind filial obedience was undesirable.
But those behind the Grand Tutor and Lin Xuanji were different.
"If my father wants to kill me, then let him."
"Precisely. Our bodies, hair, and skin were bestowed upon us by our parents. If our parents want them, we need only return them."
"He honors only his mother and disregards his father. Such monstrous defiance! Given time, he might even cease to respect His Majesty!"
They unleashed their verbal condemnations one after another, making the air tremble and the Great Dao quake.
Yet beneath the shelter of Li Chungang's aura, Lin Ke could still speak freely.
"If my father wants to kill me, but my mother wishes me to live, wouldn't submitting to my father mean defying my mother's wishes?" Lin Ke's expression remained unchanged. "In that case, does filial duty require me to obey my father or my mother?"
It was true that his father wanted to kill him, but his mother wanted him to live safe and sound!
Then whose wishes should he defy, his father's or his mother's?
That was why this sort of filial duty amounted to blind obedience.
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