APAD: One man's meat is another man's poison

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7grizzly
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Meaning: Everything is relative - what one person values, another may think worthless.

 

Background: This expression originates in antiquity. Whether the Roman poet and

philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (known as Lucretius) coined the expression in

the first century BC, or merely repeated it, his is the oldest known reference:

"quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum" (what is food for one man may be

bitter poison to others).

 

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So that's one legit reason for people to disagree and crimes in societies.

Ancient Chinese wisdom tries to contain the situation by divide-and-conquer:

small countries with not many citizens, but the theory's no match for human

wants. It sounds like the Matrix:

    

    Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to

    be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where

    everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would

    accept the program, entire crops were lost.

 

Next to the ideal solution, money seems the most successful story invented so

far in getting people to cooperate.

暖冬cool夏
What is one man‘s trash is another ‘s treasure:))
唐宋韵
这些被人译成“甲之蜜糖、乙之砒霜”,应该是大体准确的。
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盈盈一笑间
中英文真是相通的。东西方文化有不少可以共享的内容。。多谢分享~~
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7grizzly
Yes. Same thing.
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7grizzly
+100086 -盈盈一笑间
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7grizzly
肆意发挥,见笑了:-)
卫宁
Can we say: women have common sense, but men do not :))
妖妖灵
如果甲把他的蜜糖却是乙的砒霜送给乙,乙该怎么办呢?
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7grizzly
Sure. More often that's the case :-)
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7grizzly
communicate :-)
唐宋韵
Run.