Confucius would respond to Taoist’s ways of “simply letting things be,” by saying that as an individual, one must follow the rules based on how society portrays them, and to simply let humans learn how to be natural human beings on their own, through self-development and through the society as a whole. By doing this, Confucius believed that, “Each person should act with virtue in all social matters; family, community, state, and kingdom, to ensure order and unity.” Confucians believed in rituals/traditions and certain procedures were used for birth and death. Confucius argued that, “Not to teach a man who can be taught, is to waste a man; to teach a man who cannot be taught, is a waste of words. The wise will lose neither men nor words.” Confucians
