The student discussion proposes that guest-betrayal reaches deepest because it attacks trust and hospitality that could apply to anyone, not just one's own kin group.
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Guests
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...if you betray a family it only concerns yours whereas a guest can really concern anyone on earth yes so it disrupts trust yes..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...if you betray a family it only concerns yours whereas a guest can really concern anyone on earth yes so it disrupts trust yes..."
Key Notes
A second explanatory line in the discussion is that friendship and hospitality involve chosen bonds, whereas family and country are often inherited rather than freely selected.
Jiang treats hospitality as a near-universal social law, extending beyond medieval Europe and grounded in the possibility that any guest could be sacred or godlike in disguise.
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"...if you betray a family it only concerns yours whereas a guest can really concern anyone on earth yes so it disrupts trust yes..."
"israel i guess to treat a guest you have to put up the best hospitality it's because it's stranger"
"i think it's underlying the same principle uh kong well i think you have a great idea but i'm not sure if it was..."
"you will right you choose yes because you don't choose your family you might not even choose the"
"...and and um also what's really important is the idea of guests like the iron law of most society is to treat guests with..."
"...greek mythology in the greek society what they believe that every guest could potentially be a god in disguise so to kill a guest..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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