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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
18hr ago
It's not exactly capricious, the Ninevites explicitly go overboard in their repentance. Even the cows repent of their wickedness!
There are lots of layered takes to get out of the story, that's why it's so good! Jonah was punished for his disobedience but forgiven in the end. Also, God didn't just kill Jonah but brought him back - He could have just picked a new prophet but Jonah was given a second chance. Nineveh better at repenting than Israel/Judah. Israel has prophet after prophet spitting reams of flowery poetry sent to convert it and no one changes. Nineveh gets a half-assed "God's going to come down hard on you!" and they all immediately undergo a ridiculous level of fasting and repentance.
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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
18hr ago
Jane Austen's novels primarily concern themselves with moral education. Is it possible to ruin good breeding with poor moral education? This was actually a somewhat scandalous take back then.
The primary application of Pride and Prejudice today is to present young women with caution about their selection of mates. Which is a very worthy task, even if half the class is male and might not see the point (though the truly wise will understand what make's Austin's heroes the hero and not the villain, and maybe learn from that.)
I think we struggle right now with the opposite question: are there some people whose poor breeding cannot be improved with a good moral education?
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