Learn more ways to preserve rather than destroy. Avoid rather than check. Check rather than hurt. Hurt rather than maim. Maim rather than kill. For all life is precious, nor can any be replaced.
Master Po: "Where is evil? In the rat whose nature it is to steal grain? Or in the cat, whose nature it is to kill the rat?"
Caine: "The rat steals. Yet for him, the cat is evil."
Master Po: "And to the cat, the rat."
Caine: "Yet, Master, surely one of them is evil."
Master Po: "The rat does not steal. The cat does not murder. Rain falls, the stream flows, a hill remains. Each acts according to its nature."
Caine: "Then is there no evil for men? Each man tells himself that what he does is good. At least for himself."
Master Po: "A man may tell himself many things... but is a man's universe made only of himself?"
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Caine: "If a man hurts me and I punish him, perhaps he will not hurt another."
Master Po: "And if you do nothing?"
Caine: "He will believe he may do as he wishes."
Master Po: "Perhaps. Or perhaps he will learn that some men receive injury but return kindness."
- Kung Fu
