DAY 332
Rashomon
羅生門
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How easily does human morality collapse when faced with the crossroads of survival?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first looked into the heart of the servant sheltering from the rain beneath the ruined Rashomon gate, I felt a chill at the nature of humankind. The author cuts sharply into the lightness of our ethics through a stark choice: to starve, or to become a thief. The sentences that capture the instant when the line between good and evil collapses leave a deep and shadowed resonance.
— ONGO · Curator
"To do what is inevitable, one cannot afford to choose the means."Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Rashomon
"어쩔 수 없는 일을 하기 위해서는 수단을 가릴 여유가 없다."
🌱Apply It Today
Ask yourself what absolute morality really is. Rather than carelessly condemning another's desperate choice, first consider the pain behind it.
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The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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