社会学家孙立平先生的《守卫底线》一书,以《守卫社会生活的底线》一文作为“代序”。在这“代序”中,孙立平指出,人类的社会生活,应有着某种“底线”。这种“底线”比通常意义上的道德模糊,却比通常意义上的道德更为坚固,更具有永恒性,更不随时代变化而变化。这是一种“类似于禁忌的基础生活秩序”。在正常的社会里,这种 Sociologist Sun Liping’s “guard the bottom line,” a book, “guarding the bottom line of social life,” a “gift order.” In this “Preface,” Sun Liping pointed out that there must be some kind of “bottom line ” in human social life. This kind of “bottom line ” is more vague and more eternal than the moral sense in the usual sense, more than the moral momentaryness in the usual sense, and even less subject to changes in the times. This is a kind of “basic life order similar to taboo”. In normal society, this