显然，当前席卷全世界的这场危机，是异常深重，史无前例的。纵观历史，人类曾经历过各种类型的危机——社会危机、国家危机、政治危机等。危机潮来潮去，经济发生衰退与萧条，经过一番修补，危机又改头换面，得以延续。对此我们已耳熟能详，心知肚明。
但可以肯定，当前这场危机不同于以往。之所以不同，首先因为在这场危机中，我们所应对的既非金钱，也非实物，而是理念。危机之所以异常深重，是因为这是一场理念的危机。我们在与理念争吵不休，我们在为谋杀狡辩粉饰，世界各地都把谋杀狡辩为实现正当目的的手段，这实在是史无前例的。先前，人们把邪恶视为邪恶，把谋杀视为谋杀；而今，谋杀却变成了实现高尚目的的手段。不论谋杀个人，或谋杀群体，都被如簧巧舌所洗白，因为杀手或他背后的组织，把谋杀狡辩为达成目的的手段，可裨益全人类。也就是说，我们牺牲了当前，换取未来，只要我们宣称，我们的目的是为人类谋福利，就可以不择手段，且无关紧要。所以，这就意味着，错误的手段能产生正当的结果，你可以运用理念为错误手段漂白。
……我们已经构建了庞大的理念框架，来为丑恶辩白，这无疑是史无前例的。恶就是恶，恶不能带来善，战争绝不可能带来和平。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
译按：此篇节选自克氏1954年版著作First and Last Freedom，文中所谴责的谋杀，可能是指1948年1月30日印度和平领袖圣雄甘地被印度教愤青刺杀事件。此篇的理浅近易解，译起来也不耗神。
Justifying Evil
Obviously the present crisis throughout the world is exceptional, without precedent. There have been crises of varying types at different periods throughout history—social, national, political. Crises come and go; economic recessions, depressions, come, get modified, and continue in a different form. We know that; we are familiar with that process.
Surely the present crisis is different, is it not? It is different first because we are dealing not with money nor with tangible things but with ideas. The crisis is exceptional because it is in the field of ideation. We are quarreling with ideas, we are justifying murder; everywhere in the world we are justifying murder as a means to a righteous end, which in itself is unprecedented. Before, evil was recognized to be evil, murder was recognized to be murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group of people, is justified, because the murderer, or the group that the murderer represents, justifies it as a means of achieving a result that will be beneficial to man. That is, we sacrifice the present for the future—and it does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose is to produce a result that we say will be beneficial to man. Therefore, the implication is that a wrong means will produce a right end and you justify the wrong means through ideation.
… We have a magnificent structure of ideas to justify evil and surely that is unprecedented. Evil is evil; it cannot bring about good. War is not a means to peace.
FEBRUARY 24
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