It is upon the Trunk that a gentleman works. Analects of Confucius, 1. 2. The practical result of education in the spirit of The Green Book must be the destruction of the society which accepts it. But this is not necessarily a refutation of subjectivism about values as a theory. The true doctrine might be a doctrine which if we accept we die. No one who speaks from within the Tao could reject it on that account; ἐν δὲ φάει καὶ ὄλεσσον. But it has not yet come to that. There are theoretical difficulties in the philosophy of Gaius and Titius.
