Jiang insists that the class cannot explain adultery by emotion alone; they have to specify exactly what cheating destroys and why that destruction matters.
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Adultery
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A student argues that cheating is bad because it breaks a vow or covenant, and that covenant carries sacrificial seriousness rather than being a casual promise.
Jiang says cheating matters because it breaks the bond created by the vow rather than because sex itself is magically contaminating.
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"I, I understand, I understand all this, but I'm saying like, okay, first let's establish what cheating does, why is cheating a bad thing?..."
"Because you have broken a vow, a covenant, and you have to redeem or paid in blood."
"And, and what do they, how do they make this vow?"
"So there's now this bond, right? Yes. So when you cheat, what you're doing is you're, you're breaking this bond. That's a problem. Yeah."
"That's right. So what you've done is you've changed the nature of the relationship from one based on trust to one. Now that is..."
"...feasting and rejoicing. Sabbatians encountered and practiced and encouraged sexual promiscuity, adultery, father -daughter incest, and religious orgies. Yikes. So, inversion was a big..."
"...we call gaslighting you forget that David's crime is okay not adultery all right so in other words the Bible it's an apology for..."
"...to reconcile husband and wife. And Anna Karenina herself will commit adultery. She'll fall in love with a man named... a man named Vronsky...."
"...the void in her heart. She feels that this relationship... This adultery... Will give her meaning in her life. And what she doesn't understand..."
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