An idea from Mencius

Custom said men and women shouldn’t touch hands. Still, a man too proper to “rescue his drowning sister-in-law would be a wolf.” A rule gives way in an emergency. A whole drowning world, though, has to be rescued with right principles, not with one hand.

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