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Jiang says the brother cannot simply save Piccarda from an immediate suicide threat, so he escalates to threatening their mother in order to force surrender.
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Jiang says the hypothetical has reached a point where Piccarda cannot reasonably choose a path that kills both herself and her mother, so surrender becomes her only available action inside the scenario.
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A student contends that complete faith in God should let Piccarda stand firm and trust that her mother will not die.
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Jiang solicits and accepts the reasoning that the mother's presence changes the case because the decision is no longer only about Piccarda's own life or vow.
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"...now is say you know what picardo i'm gonna kidnap our mother i'm gonna kill her unless you come on the comrade and then..."
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"...we are now now the situation is the duke presents their mother okay and says hey for carna you rather come down here now..."
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"if you kill our mother i will kill our father okay guys this is not how it works okay so now it seems like..."
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"...god is standing on her side she'll have faith that her mother won't die so she'll still be standing on top okay let's"
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"just say she has complete faith in god the correct choice would be to surrender why okay because it's"
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"not just her it's her it's her mother so if it's just her it's her choice to make but if it's her mother then..."
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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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