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The class identifies graft not only as taking resources from others but as a compulsion that keeps making the sinner try again.
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Addiction
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Key Notes
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Jiang argues the sinner's impulse is not genuine freedom-seeking but an addictive need to prove he is smarter than everyone else by cheating them again.
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Jiang's analogy is that a loved one addicted to drugs may need forceful intervention, even jail or abandonment, because permissive help can preserve the destructive pattern.
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Jiang argues that most Americans would reject reserve-currency status if they understood its costs, but the country remains addicted to the easy money it creates, producing a contradiction between national interest and elite dependence.
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Jiang argues that transgression feels empowering and addictive because breaking the rule makes the actor feel more powerful than parents, teachers, or authority.
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Jiang says the test system is addictive like video games because students become skilled at memorizing and regurgitating standardized answers.
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Jiang says America cannot simply leave the Middle East because it is addicted to the petrodollar and that system underwrites the American economy.
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"graft yes go ahead and graft they take resources and things away from people who should have right"
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"okay and so why would this be a fitting punishment for them uh yes maybe because it's"
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"doing that is so addicting that they can't stop doing it right okay so there's a compulsion to"
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"...you'll be fine. But you constantly want to escape. It's an addiction. Okay? Right? So the people who, at least accountants who steal from..."
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"...lot of crime in order to feed his or her drug addiction if we truly"
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"love our child what would we do yes uh send him to the rehab then into the rehabilitation okay"
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"...money criminal crimes in order to feed his or her drug addiction he or she belongs in jail okay retribution is this vengeance or..."
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"up the the good samaritan issue in the bible where like the person who like helps them is actually enabling them and the person..."
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"...love is and if the person is like has a drug addiction that person cannot live his or her best life she had to..."
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"That is his mission. That is his game. If he really wants to destroy the American empire, he needs to destroy the value of..."
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"So yeah, we don't want to be the world reserve currency. The problem though is that they're addicted to it because it's such easy..."
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"it's addictive it's just addictive as playing video games right this with this test system in place there are students as you say who..."
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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