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Jiang rejects the idea that Piccarda's free will could be straightforwardly exercised by simple refusal because the scene involves literal armed force dragging her away.
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Soldiers
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Jiang says fear itself is the evidence of weak faith because genuine trust in God would remove terror of the soldiers and the unknown leap beyond them.
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Jiang says that once the soldiers see such resolve, they would interpret themselves as fighting God rather than merely carrying out the duke’s order, which breaks the coercive scene.
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Jiang argues that a soldier facing Piccarda on the roof would not risk calling her bluff, because the consequences of storming the nunnery and causing her death are worse than retreating and reporting failure.
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Pericles’ rhetoric converts dead sons and orphaned children into resources for imperial reproduction.
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Lepidus loses because he lacks the confidence and charisma to challenge Octavian, and his soldiers defect to the man they see as the new Julius Caesar.
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Philip made the army loyal by fighting and training at the front, suffering wounds with his soldiers, eating and drinking with common soldiers, listening to complaints, and communicating a vision of Macedonian greatness.
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Philip's conquest of Amphipolis mattered because gold mines gave him money to pay full-time soldiers, buy noble loyalty, fund roads and projects, and bribe foreign elites.
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"exercise their free will by refusing yeah but there are soldiers with swords dragging her"
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"away what could she have done she could have tried to escape or killed herself okay wait wait wait"
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"please save me please save me so what's wrong with that yeah well um i just wanted to say that god just needs your..."
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"you wouldn't be afraid of the soldiers yeah that's the problem the fear is a problem you understand the fact that you fear means..."
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"this you just stand on top of the roof and says okay guys you come in the door i'll jump jump down right if..."
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"...have to like imagine yourself in that situation okay you're the soldier ricardo's doing this crap on you right you have to think god..."
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"back home i think okay well imagine two situations the first situation is you go back to the duke and says your sister's crazy..."
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"They're not popular. They're not popular. So, they're beholden to the American empire. And, if they were to go against the American empire, they'd..."
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"five to ten years where Germans lose a lot of soldiers in Ukraine first before they eventually rebel against the Empire."
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"is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here numberless are the chances to which as they..."
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"so he's talking to these uh parents whose sons are now dead okay and remember like during the Persian wars the Athenians were like..."
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"an orphanage and raise them to be soldiers so that so that they can go and fight for the empire and die like their..."
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