FADE IN.
Act 1
INT. STUDY - DAY
PETER is watching a TED talk on TV.
PETER (V.O.): Can science answer moral questions?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Can an "ought" be derived from an "is"?
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): To assert what is good or bad is a fact. But the fact that such an assertion is made doesn't tell the truth/falsehood of what is good/bad.
The talk ends.
PETER (V.O.): Let me revalue the conventional value assumptions.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It's a fact that humans aren't born equal in their abilities. Their nurture are different. Thus, their traits aren't the same.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Some behave more rational than others.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): On morality, those who don't have analytical skills can be easily conditioned by conventional morality.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): They may even turn themselves against the instinct of life - against good sense or judgment.
Act 2
INT. STUDY - CONTINUOUS
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.): There are some who want to excel eg having a unifying project in life.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): What unifies my life project has been my discipline to capture, create and deliver value.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): My goal is to achieve what I can achieve in my lifespan, linking the historical past with the future.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I admit that I'm oblivious to petty concerns that occupy others or the herd. Eg only upon repeated urges did I make a claim under government's Cash Payout Scheme.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The herd can be overwhelmed by the harsh reality. In Hong Kong, competition is always keen.
Peter reads the philosophy of Nietzsche on his phone screen.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): He observes that the herd envy those who don't suffer as much as they do.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Thus, the herd band together under whatever excuses for communal power, wanting to bring down elites to their mediocre level.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As Nietzsche puts it, such a herd or slave morality is like saying: "I'm declining" and "all of you ought to decline with me".
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Herd or slave morality inverts the natural value of life, and deems the elites' value as evil. The herd judge theirs as good.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In short, they're the morality themselves.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Instead of changing the society for the better, the herd provoke its destruction, as a compensation for their incompetence.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When they fail to accomplish what they desire to do, they react angrily like: "If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, and no one can be anything."
Peter puts his hand over his mouth.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The philosophical explanation accurately predicts the recent Hong Kong sub-culture.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): And that's why Nietzsche says morality can be the danger of all dangers.
Act 3
INT. SWIMMING POOL - DAY
Peter looks preoccupied.
PETER (V.O.): The effects of such a type of herd or slave morality have to be lessened.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Everything is learnable. Everyone can learn to become smart.
INT. STUDY - NIGHT
Watching TV, Peter is thinking.
PETER (V.O.): What's constant is change. With the advance of information and communication technology, the present world is changing fast and humans can learn fast too.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): With the support of artificial intelligence, expertise on moral questions of what is good for a person's well being and the society at large can be thoroughly researched, updated, programmed, developed, and therefore answered.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): And the danger of all dangers to the world can be prevented.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): More importantly, the common heritage of all humankind in time-space can be maintained and sustained.
Nodding.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Science can produce moral answers these days.
THE END
FADE OUT.

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