Treat Another's Child as Your Own

answered by Mencius, King Hui of Liang I

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

The King of Masks (1996)

dir. Wu Tianming · China

Long prejudice fixes a child's worth in advance by the mere condition of birth. When one comes at last to accept as a whole person the child he first saw only for use, what changed us — and where does the heart that treats another's child as one's own come from?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Do I fix a child's worth in advance by birth alone, blind to the wholeness of that child?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

幼吾幼及人之幼

幼吾幼以及人之幼

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Extend the care for your own young to reach the young of others.

💡 TL;DR

Mencius said to extend the care for your own young until it reaches the young of others.

📝The Classic Answers

Mencius said to extend the care for your own young until it reaches the young of others. Love begins narrow, but that it can be widened is the human possibility. Long prejudice nails a child's worth to the condition of birth, yet the moment one meets that child as a whole person, the nail of prejudice is pulled. Withdrawing the eye that measured a person in advance by condition, I choose to widen, by one span, the heart that cherishes my own.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you looked down on someone by condition alone today, imagine what changes if you treat him as your own.

📖 Classic Source: Mencius, King Hui of Liang I. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.