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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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Empowerment
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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Transgression is presented as proving faith by rejecting human morality and social taboo, producing liberation and empowerment through violation.
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"let's go to store and steal a candy that Kenny may cost $1 nothing right but you try it and you are terrified you're..."
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"and you keep on going because it's addictive and ultimately there's a transgression that is the ultimate taboo which is what you guys know..."
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"So these are the Calvinists, right? They argue that to show your true faith in God, and for you to prove to yourself God..."
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"...start a new class and this new class is called individual empowerment and my very first assignment to all my students is I want..."
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"get expelled from school you might be jailed your parents may punish you you may be outcast from society and then I tell you..."
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"...Frank is, are an extremely egalitarian people where there's also women empowerment, okay? Does it make sense? All right. Can you read Amber?"
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"...much more appealing than the Christianity of Paul. Jesus taught freedom, empowerment, liberation. Paul taught obedience, discipline, sacrifice, okay? So Jesus is far more..."
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"...start a new class and this new class is called individual empowerment and my very first assignment to all my students is i want..."
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"...a culture that's obsessed with ourselves, with self -improvement, with self -empowerment, all right?"
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"...preached a religion of transgression because transgression meant courage. It meant empowerment. It meant true faith. And he had a lot of followers. And..."
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"...a culture that's obsessed with ourselves. With self -improvement, with self -empowerment, all right? So, we will look at where this came from, okay?..."
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"...preached a religion of transgression, because transgression meant courage. It meant empowerment. It meant true faith. And he had a lot of followers. And..."
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