In this argument, Professor Fang begins with the statement that “everyone has the right to choose the manner in which he or she bears his/her own moral responsibilities.”This personal sovereignty argument is very similar with Dworkin’s second principle of human rights that “one person has special responsibility for the success of each life-the person whose life it is.” (Dworkin, 2002, p.65)Professor Fang thus seems to pick up his rival''s weapon.However, he uses it in quite a different way.In Dworkin’s hands, this principle is a sword to pierce tyranny.
　　　　In Fang’s hands, this theory is a shield against foreign pressure.This might be a typical attitude of many Chinese nationalists: “Yes, we are in trouble, but whatever, it is our business and has nothing to do with you.Why do you care?”
　
　
　
　Not only do foreigners have no reason to care, but they also have many reasons to shut up.Professor Fang continues to allege that the outsiders “have neither moral superiority nor actual wisdom to TELL others what risks to take at what time and in what circumstances.”And to ask insiders to rise up may even be an immoral evil.
　
　
　
　I do not recall Dworkin calling upon Chinese scholars to “rise and fight.”And I suspect that Professor Dworkin would readily support Professor Fang’s statement that “people can fight in more than one way.”However, even if Dworkin had really asked his Chinese colleagues to run risks that he would not run, would he deserve to be described as evil?I hesitate to say so.
　
　
　
　Calling upon others to sacrifice themselves can be justified in many cases.For example, we can hardly blame a General when he commands his soldiers to go to battlefields and run the risks that he will not directly run into himself.I also do not think that the World Bank was evil to ask a country to implement a financial reconstruction therapy and shoulder the risks that it would not confront.Even Karl Marx called upon foreign proletariats to overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie and run the risk that he would not run.Suppose that in 2002, an American scholar came to Beijing and called for revolution.He or she could very likely be deemed immature, but not necessarily immoral.

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