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Jiang uses the prom analogy to say penance is like deliberately presenting your best self before an awaited meeting rather than merely serving a sentence.
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Best self
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "You, yourself. Excuse me? Yourself. Yourself. You understand the idea here. What this is saying is this. Yes, we have the desire to climb..."
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"You, yourself. Excuse me? Yourself. Yourself. You understand the idea here. What this is saying is this. Yes, we have the desire to climb..."
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"...Internet sometimes. And I don't think it's always the best. Our best self. Our best selves in this like ultra competitive, weird antagonistic state...."
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"...hard to maintain cooperation because everyone's fighting for his or her best self -interest."
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"...ego projects a persona, okay? The persona is just basically our best self in a certain social context. So in school, you're a student,..."
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