Jiang reads Beatrice's line about doing worse by keeping faith as naming a real paradox: vow-keeping can become morally more stupid than vow-breaking when literal obedience destroys innocent life.
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Jiang judges Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia as stupid because he should have been able to foresee that murdering a beloved daughter would provoke retaliatory destruction inside his own house.
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"...done worse by keeping faith and you can find that same stupidity so so you see the paradox in the sentence"
"right doing worse by keeping faith doesn't make any sense right keep on going and you can find that"
"and destroy troy and this is what starts the trojan war and agamemnon is the leader of the greek army so the greeks assemble..."
"So this was stupid. And ultimately, if you know the story of the Greeks, what happens to Agamemnon because he killed Iphigenia? Do you..."
"Yeah, I think Iphigenia's mother, Clytemnestra, revenged on Agamemnon."
"same stupidity in the greeks chief when her faith when her fair faith made effigenia grieve and made the wise and made the foolish..."
"...Okay? So this makes sense. Multiculturalism doesn't work. It leads to stupidity such as DEI, woke politics. Transgenerism. It's all retarded. Let's focus on..."
"...of moral hazard. If you do not suffer consequences for your stupidity, well, you're just going to be more stupid in the future. Okay?..."
"...really screwed without access to cheap energy so stop this ai stupidity and go back to growing food okay so that means getting out..."
"...send you to war okay imagine that you know imagine the stupidity of that statement you know if you're 65 we might still have..."
"...therefore we have responsibility to destroy this world by exposing the stupidity of this world that's why sinning is so important because when you..."
"...than try to lead them towards good take advantage of their stupidity take advantage of the fact that they're that they're evil because if..."
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