+100 points: saving a person's life; ensuring a woman's fidelity; preventing infanticide or abortion. +50 points: adopting an orphan; burying an unclaimed corpse; preventing someone from abandoning their village during famine; successfully persuading fishermen, hunters and butchers to find a different profession. +30 points: persuading an evildoer to change; correcting an injustice. +10 points: recommending a virtuous person for office; removing a public harm. +5 points: convincing someone to drop a lawsuit; saving a domestic animal. +3 points: saving the life of a useless animal; asking fishermen, hunters and butchers to seek a different profession. +1 point: praising good deeds; not joining in wrongdoing; curing illness; feeding the hungry; burying a dead animal; saving an insect or aquatic creature; donating money to good causes such as building roads, bridges, wells, temples, or for helping the poor with essentials like tea, medicine, clothes, or coffins. -1 point: each character misread while chanting a sutra; reciting a sutra after eating garlic or onions. -2 points: sex with a prostitute. -10 points: possessing arms to kill; entertaining murderous thoughts; talking back to one's parents; illicit sex with someone of good family. -100 points: raping a woman; sentencing someone to death.
This is the Chinese equivalent of Moses' stone tablets. It's interesting to observe how societies come up with their own moral/ethical rules to ensure their cohesion, how those rules compare to each other, and how they evolve with time...
I used grok for transcription
This is the Chinese equivalent of Moses' stone tablets. It's interesting to observe how societies come up with their own moral/ethical rules to ensure their cohesion, how those rules compare to each other, and how they evolve with time...