COSG - Chapter 85.1: Injured Civilians

There was no one who disliked youth.

However, some people adored the vitality of youth, the potential of youth, and the creativity of youth, while others simply revered youth itself. Among the latter group, there were two distinct categories.

The first type of people regarded youth as a plaything—a commodity—while the second type regarded youth as capital—don't be mistaken; it isn't the sort of capital that generates profits, but rather, the capital to be willful.

The first group had a fervent inclination to draw the young and naive into their sordid circles, employing money, power, force, and even honeyed words at zero cost to toy with and exploit inexperienced youngsters.

The second group, primarily consisting of young people, mostly believed that there were only two phases in life: adolescence and youth. Without any reason to back them up, they reckoned that only the young had the right to flirt with dreams and indulge without restraint. Such individuals had an enthusiasm for mocking older strangers as "old ladies" or "greasy middle-aged men" as if they could never reach the age of those they mocked. Interestingly, within this group, there were some that overlapped with the first category and viewed others as playthings.

In China, these two types of people often had to hide behind masks to engage in their revelry; in a healthy human society, objectification, transaction, and discrimination of fellow humans, at the very least, in established rules and within the bounds of social norms, were prohibited and socially punishable.

However, in an environment of human society that wasn't as healthy… The conditions were ripe for these two categories of people to run amok, and they would even prosper more than ordinary law-abiding citizens.

Weisshem didn't start out as a "financially affluent" town. Although the main street in the town was grandly constructed, the incomplete city walls exposed the fact that the town was nothing more than a nouveau riche creation. The three-meter-high walls could only cover the old

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