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The familial and communal ties Ulysses betrays; losing them leaves ambition rootless.
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Jiang answers that Ulysses is worse than theft because he harms not strangers but his own family and roots, abandoning the people to whom he owes role and care.
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"yeah that's your question why well thievery you are hurting those you're hurting you're hurting strangers right but what ulysses is doing you're hurting..."
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"you're betraying your own kind and your own roots okay right does that make sense"
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"because because your son needs a role model okay your wife needs a husband and your father needs a son and you've just abandoned..."
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"...glad. It is not happiness. It's not true essence, fruit and root of every good. The love that profligately yields to that is wept..."
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"...and winnows good and evil belongings. Those reasoners who reached the roots of things, learned of its inborn freedom, the bequest that thus they..."
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"...as shines in you before your deaths arrived. I was the root of the obnoxious plant that overshadows all the Christian lands so that..."
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"...causing all sorts of chaos throughout the world. So he's the root of that obnoxious family that is now overshadowing all Christian lands. Okay?..."
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"is she is she the root of this conflict is she the cause of this conflict uh yes yeah just media in"
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"...at least people knew each other okay and these people had roots at least people knew why they were they were living and um..."
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"...my own just self. I swear to you, by the peculiar roots of this thorn bush, I never broke my faith with him who..."
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"...my own just self. I swear to you, by the peculiar roots of this thorn bush, I never broke my faith with him who..."
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"...of how bad things were back then, at least they had roots, right? At least they had family and community, a sense of like..."
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