human
The action of Mallory's knight, exclaimed Iwai,
gpt
The story is certainly immoral, said Orito.
human
What it relates is opposed to all our ideas of love and loyalty, and even seems to us contrary to nature. Loyalty is not a mere duty. It must be from the heart, or it is not loyally. It must be an inborn feeling. And it is in the nature of every Japanese.
gpt
It is a horrible story, said Andō.
human
Philanthropy itself is only an expansion of fraternal love. The man who could abandon his own brother to death merely to save a strange woman was a wicked man. Perhaps he was influenced by passion.
gpt
No, I said:
human
I think the explanation of the story must be religious, said Yasukochi.
gpt
It seems strange to us; but that may be because we do not understand Western ideas very well. Of course to abandon one's own brother in order to save a strange woman is contrary to all our knowledge of right. But if that knight was a man of pure heart, he must have imagined himself obliged to do it because of some promise or some duty. Even then it must have seemed to him a very painful and disgraceful thing to do, and he could not have done it without feeling that he was acting against the teaching of his own heart.
human
There you are right, I answered.
gpt
But you should also know that the sentiment obeyed by Sir Bors is one which still influences the conduct of brave and noble men in the societies of the West,--even of men who cannot be called religious at all in the common sense of that word.
human
Still, we think it a very bad sentiment, said Iwai;