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Jiang's response here is methodological: rather than simply naming pride the root, he tests the claim by asking whether it can causally generate sloth and the other sins.
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The student's account Jiang entertains says pride can generate sloth by making a person believe natural ability removes the need for effort.
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The reading also distinguishes tepid pursuit of the good from profligate attachment to lesser goods, thereby distributing distorted love across both deficiency and excess.
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He glosses the people in annihilation as those who chose to sleep through life or do nothing with it, which makes annihilation a moral refusal rather than a random punishment.
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"Pride. Huh. Okay. Can you, do you have an answer?"
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"Explain to me why pride leads to laziness, Slav."
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"Because you believe your innate ability requires less action and energy to achieve your goals than the truth, than in reality. But I don't..."
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"Each apprehends confusedly a good in which the mind may rest and longs for it, and thus all strive to reach that good. But..."
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"so after oh so after their choice they are forever um yeah because like like they just chose to"
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"do nothing in life they just told to um sleep food life right how's that different from like animals or plants oh so does..."
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"does that choice is instant like like um yeah they don't exist it's your choice not to exist"
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"...these seven terrorists are and these seven terrorists are pride envy sloth um greedKyrie pride envy sloth um greedkyrie now there could be research..."
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"...like crawl okay so you're always um humbled okay uh for sloth you you're you're forced to run around a lot okay you're active..."
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"...perverted. The last three profane love excessive and the middle one sloth is loved effective."
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"...green oh people in whom eager fervor now may compensate for sloth and negligence he showed in doing good half -heartedly he who's alive..."
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"...said turn around see those two coming they whose words mock sloth and i heard those two say behind all of the rest the..."
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