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Jiang rejects the idea that Jephthah's problem can be reduced to treachery against kin by changing the victim from daughter to aunt, neighbor, and stranger, showing that the vow remains evil because it commands murder no matter who walks through the door.
"but why is treachery so bad why why would treachery be worse than breaking a vow to god i think it's"
"would be kind of gruesome so um so so let's do the hypothetical where okay the problem is that jetfa um had to kill..."
"okay you're still bad okay let's give you the daughter okay how about i don't know stranger yeah the stranger that's still murder that's..."
"and say it's not the daughter let's just say it's a complete stranger is it okay now okay all right okay so this is..."
"...is to have constructed a first representation of the relations of kinship between things might be. Okay? So what this is saying is that..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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