Analects 12:19

Analects 12:19

Ji Kang Zi asked Confucius about government saying: “Suppose I were to kill the unjust, in order to advance the just. Would that be alright?”

Confucius replied: “In doing government, what is the need of killing? If you desire good, the people will be good. The nature of the noble man is like the wind, the nature of the inferior man is like the grass. When the wind blows over the grass, it always bends.”

In Ji Kang Zi statement that if he supposes to kill the unjust, in order to advance the just, it will never be alright because killing make him also unjust because the act of killing is the way of unjust.

In Confucius statement I really believe that it is true that if you desire good, there is no need of killing. If you desire good, the people will be good, it is like when you are the leader of a certain group, when you do good, all your members will also do good because they know that you do the right thing and they will be ashamed of themselves if they themselves will not do good. “When the wind blows over the grass, it always bends,” this statement is true because when the leader do good or the right thing, its members will also do good things because they saw that their leader that leads them does good things while when the leader is doing bad things, its members will also do bad things because the members are the reflection of its leader.