She additionally feels the power dynamic here, even in a time where she is supposed to feel equally in desire -- in sex. She acts, again, performing a duty and not participating in desire

Men don't understand, he is patronising her in the way that a job is not just a job but a sense of power, of individuality and a duty, which Serena Joy keeps trying to find in her knitting and in her garden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avishai_Margalit

Two people convicted of running a Chinese 'maternity hotel' in Rancho Cucamonga by [[Fiona Ng]]

This was the case I had for jury duty last week. I only got to voir dire and didn't even make it into the box. Interesting to see it make the news after it was settled.

The headline is a bit off. They were convicted of fraud and money laundering. There were no charges with respect to a maternity hotel operation based on what I heard on the first day before being excused.

The syndetic listing makes it seem like this is an impersonal law, that women need to feel a sense of duty to stay sane. However, it is all artificial because Serena Joy and other wives have no real duty, only a pretend duty.

original source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Current American climate indicates that Republicans take this quote of Aristotle's to heart, but they're not closely thinking about how they define "education". They're definitely not defining it with respect to John Locke's views in Some Thoughts Concerning Education which encourages political systems that move away from an electorate that is subservient to authority.

see: https://hypothes.is/a/upfxCtSiEe2wrdd3cOo-Lg for John Locke

https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2022/11/introduction-to-duty-of-care.html

That's an interesting way to phrase that, "what was her duty." Not "what should she do" or "what will be best for her" or "what does she want" it's telling her what her duty is, as though she doesn't have a choice at all in this. It seems at the end she sees her duty as staying where she is with the memory of her family.

The discussion in book 6 after this quote explores what a duty is. It presents the idea that, like eating, laws in the Faith to pray or teach are not arbitrary rules, but statements about our nature, and conducive to our growth. This implies that they should also be sources of joy.

If I could be a juror in virtual reality, that is something I could finally get behind!

Nationalism is a deathly effective tool for motivating and controlling an empire's officials. All sense of mercy and consideration for foreigners are replaced with frustration and paranoia due to the possibility of the aliens being enemies of the nation. Though the narrator clearly displays his reluctance of interrogating the prisoners, he knows that his duty as a government magistrate rises above all else and it is very intriguing to see his battle between his idealism and his obedient sense of duty. The struggle of many government workers has always been the decision between one's own sense of righteousness or the word of their superiors and what they decide depends on how far they've seen their peers push others in the name of the flag.

It's important to know what it takes to "exceed expectations". Does working hard and then working even harder for the same outcome go above the call of duty? Or does the outcome matter? Whatever the answer is, being specific in the thanks is important to communicate what you think the answer is.

The duty to lie.

Use of rhetoric as duty