Mencius writes, “I love life, but I also love righteousness and if I can not have both at the same time, I will sacrifice life to have righteousness.” There are few ideas that many would consider being worth sacrificing for and the moral ambiguity from Mencius shows here. I will say personally I can only lay a few reasons myself. The important part is that this quote does generally give a sense of how he felt about what his value was in life and answered the question of what is worth dying for. In a simpler, less morbid summary I would say the simple phrase, “stand up for what you believe in,” could apply here just as well. When we choose to let our morals “die” in this case we lose many of the reasons that people want to fight. People sometimes may be afraid to speak up on issues nowadays and when they do not they metaphorically lose some of their speech when the issue they oppose has no outspoken opposition. In society today it is important to pick your battles but at the same time it is also important to make sure your voice is heard.