The Unfollowable Order: The Line at Parricide and Regicide

By / / limit, loyalty, morality, obedience, parricide, political ethics, regicide, The Analects, Xian Jin XI, Xian Jin XI Chapter 24, 底线
Confucius declared: “Even they would not follow an order to kill a father or a ruler.”

In an act of parricide or regicide, they would not follow him.

弑父与君，亦不从也。

Source: The Analects, Xian Jin XI, Chapter 24

Author: Confucius

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