人性本善?人性本恶?对于该问题的纠结自古有之,中外有之。集中国孔家之大成的孟子有云:“人无有不善。”而“人之初,行本善”这句出自《三字经》的名言更是家喻户晓。而西方的哲学家们则主张人性本恶,是万恶之首。雪莉·杰克逊在《抽彩》中,为读者展现了这样一种传统,人们为了获得来年的丰收把人当做替罪羊作为献祭处死。值得我们思考的是,为什么这样一种荒谬的传统 Humanity, good nature, human nature, evil? The tangle of the problem has existed in ancient times, both at home and abroad. Mencius, who made a great deal of Confucius in China, said: “There is no misfortune in people.” And the phrase “people at the beginning of the line, doing good” comes from the famous saying of the Three Character Classic. The Western philosophers, on the other hand, advocate that human nature is evil and evil. Shirley Jackson showed her readers a tradition of “lottery,” in which people sacrificed their lives as scapegoats for the harvest of the coming year. What deserves our consideration is why such a ridiculous tradition