2016 總統大選第一場候選人電視政見發表會後,朱立倫「阿嬤勸進說」爆紅,網路上各種調侃紛紛出現。發表會沒看,反而是從這些突然冒出的調侃,才得知朱說過這話。當下心裡聯想到的,並不是阿嬤勸進有什麼可笑之處,實際上我覺得一點也沒有。反倒是想到一部老電影,1990 年「走夜路的男人」(The Bonfire of the Vanities),裡頭 Morgan Freeman 飾演法官那段擲地有聲的話:
Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man's skin if witnesses perjure themselves. If a prosecutor enlists the perjurers. When a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain, and men of the cloth, men of God, take the prime cuts? Is that justice?
I don't hear you...
I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is the law, and the law is man's feeble attempt to set down the principles of decency. Decency! And decency is not a deal. It isn't an angle, or a contract, or a hustle! Decency... decency is what your grandmother taught you. It's in your bones! Now you go home. Go home and be decent people. Be decent.
- from IMDb
種族主義者?你們膽敢叫我種族主義者?我告訴你們,如果證人們做偽證、如果檢察官支持偽證者、如果地區檢察官為了自己的政治利益,把被告丟給暴民公審、而當穿著袍服的人,一位神職人員,竟收受賄賂,這些跟一個人的膚色有什麼相關?這難道是正義嗎?
我沒聽到你們回話…
我告訴你們正義是什麼。正義是法律,而法律是人類為了對「正道」立下準則做出的卑微努力。正道!而正道不能交易,也不是一個看事物的角度,不是合約,也無法賺錢。正道,正道是你阿嬤教你的東西。那是在你骨子裡的!現在你們回家去。回家,做個正派的人。要正派。
非常喜歡最後那句:Be decent. 多麼簡單,卻又多麼困難。我們立身處事,有沒有讓自己阿嬤丟臉呢?