that the king should cherish . The gains of a country waging a war are far from making up for its losses . The emperor enjoyed the glory of winning the war by waging war to achieve the purpose of expanding his territory . However , Mozi thought that the losses outweighed the gains . Even if there were successes , they were only isolated cases .
From the perspective of human development , war is a shortcut for great powers to accumulate primitive capital . But in Mozi ' s view , war destroyed production , lost a large number of laborers , and hindered the development of the country . Mozi ' s " non-offensive " ideology stood on the standpoint of the common people and called for the cessation of mutual attacks for the purpose of selfinterest .
Non-attack , but punish the tyrant
Mozi used " righteousness " to distinguish the nature of war , but by this he did not mean absolute peace which is against all wars . " If there is justice in the world , then there is governance ; if there is no justice in the world , then there is chaos . Based on this , I know that justice is right ( Mozi 2016 , 238 )". (“ Under the Spirit ”, part 1 .). Mozi attached great importance to " righteousness ". When a righteous person is in a position of power , the world will surely be governed and the common people will benefit from it . The more harm you do to others , the greater the sin , and the greatest injustice is to attack another country . Mozi disdained and rejected the situation that the gentlemen know to condemn and convict murder crimes , but did not condemn , and on the opposite , even praise an unjust war which resulted in countless casualties . Mozi thought that the gentlemen should distinguish between right and wrong . In Mozi ' s view , people are more likely to lose their principles or hold double standards in the face of the most important right or wrong , which provides convenience for the bully and undoubtedly aggravates the unrest of human society .
Mozi made a strict distinction between " punish " and " attack ", with non-attack and punish tyrant . Mozi believed that Tang ' s attack on Jie and King Wu ' s attack on Zhou were " imperial assaults ", which were ordered by Heaven . Although these struggles were profitable , " attacks " were fundamentally different from them . Mozi believed that when Jie was conquered , the time of the sun and the moon were not fixed , the grain withered and died , and the crane sang for several days . At the time of Shang Zhou ' s conquest , the sun rose at night , the sky rained flesh , and there were women turning into men . These were all signs that the heaven was going to kill the tyrant . An atrocious tyrant treats his people so heartlessly that the people
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