In the east lived a man named Yuan Jing Mu. In the course of a trip, he ran out of food halfway. A bandit of Hu fu, named Qiu, saw him and came down to help him. He gave him water and food. Yuan Jing Mu, after three bites and drinks, could look at who was helping him and asked: "Who are you?" He replied: "I am from Hu fu and my name is Qiu" Yuan Jijg Mu exclaimed: "How! You are a bandit! Why have you fed me? My sense of righteousness prevents me from feeding on your food." He rested both hands on the ground and tried to vomit, but he did not succeed, only the sound of the arcades came out of his mouth. Then he dropped to the ground and died.
Hu fu's man was a bandit, but his act of giving food was not an act of banditry. To consider the act of feeding as an act of banditry because it comes from a bandit is to lose the sense of the difference between name and reality.
Source: Lie Yukou's Works (5th century BC)
Every action must be judged by itself and not by who commits it. I usually say that the truth, even if it comes from the mouth of a liar, will always be true. And it is because the act matters more than the one who commits it.
True judgments are those that don't judge man, but action, that do not judge the general, but the particular, that do not stay on the labels, but deepen. Judging that as someone is a bandit all their actions come from banditry is a big mistake.
On whether or not people deserve a second chance, I don't know, but what I do know is that all people deserve not to be judged, and not simply because an injustice is committed with an unfair and fallacious judgment, but also because it is misleading to judge something that has in its nature the ability to change, like a man.
Judging that since Qiu is a bandit, all his actions are acts of banditry is to fall into an ad hominem fallacy, and it is a serious mistake.
One way or another, there is no judgment on the man who can be accurate.
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