I mean in the case of Orwell's take on King Lear, the tragedy here is simple Lear wants to have his cake and eat it too He wants to magnanimously give away his power and retire He also gets mad when the people he gives his power to start using it against him
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I'm not, like, yelling at you for that It's not necessarily good to have that principle, it may be bad It may be that the right thing to do is to stab my own kin in the back for the greater good to save millions But then you have to show THAT Pick one, pick SOMETHING
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It's the need to have your cake and eat it too "I WOULD let the whole world burn to save you, honey, but luckily, the fact that I love you so much means God will reward me by making sure I never have to" Kierkegaardian leap of faith Binding of Isaac cop-out mumbo-jumbo
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it upsets me that i cannot hire you to write a video game on the spot just because of this subthread
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