Beyond Expression
Who is a better judge?
Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu (translated by Chan Wing-Tsit):
Suppose you and I argue.
If you beat me instead of my beating you, are you really right and am I really wrong?
If I beat you instead of your beating me, am I really right and are you really wrong?
Or are we both partly right and partly wrong?
Since between us neither you nor I know which is right, others are naturally in the dark. Whom shall we ask to arbitrate?
If we ask someone who agrees with you, since he has already agreed with you, how can he arbitrate?
If we ask someone who agrees with me, since he has already agreed with me, how can he arbitrate?
If we ask someone who disagrees with both you and me to arbitrate, since he has already disagreed with you and me, how can he arbitrate?
If we ask someone who agrees with both you and me to arbitrate, since he has already agreed with you and me, how can he arbitrate?
Thus among you, me, and others, none knows which is right. Shall we wait for still others?