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There are things Jing Yi expects when he flies through the window to his rooms.
Like his rooms. Like the floor being where he expects. Like all the furniture being out of the way of anyone flying through a window.
He finds none of those things.
There may or may not be a crashing noise. Or a very undignified yelp.
"The orthodox opinion is that the universe was perfect and then humans rebelled against God by eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and then all bad things entered the world from our rebellion."
"Some people think God wanted them to eat the fruit at some point, just not then."
"I mean it's growing up, is the thing. Kids don't know anything about ethics-- or so I'm told, I never got to spend time with one much older than three months."
"But children not knowing about ethics isn't a good thing, it's why we teach them. And it's not-- worse, somehow, for someone to learn stealing is wrong when they're three and not when they're seven."
"God wanted us to be innocent, I think, and then we didn't do anything wrong because we didn't know what wrong was."
"... Not knowing wrong doesn't stop you from doing it. Some people claim that but... Ignorance can only get you so far."
"I guess if there's nothing bad in the world there's a limited amount you can do wrong. I wouldn't be evil if my babies hadn't died."
"Allegedly there weren't predators before humans ate the fruit-- that's one of the reasons Gileadites don't believe in evolution."
"The wolves saw the humans being evil and eating meat and went 'hey, we should get on this too.'"
"No, humans only started eating meat after God flooded the entire world and all of humanity drowned except for one family which took two of every animal and put it on a boat. Because the humans saved the animal species we got to eat meat."
Oh, so that's why there's so much about flooding in the science syllabus. "Was this before or after the wolves started eating meat?"
"So how did humans knowing evil get wolves to eat meat? --also does this mean cats are some of the most moral predators, because they occasionally remember their grazing nature, because I'm sure cats would be thrilled to hear it."
"It's not that the wolves themselves are bad, it's that once humans brought rebellion into the world everything just became sort of twisted from the way it was supposed to be. It's why people do bad things and why giving birth hurts and why we have to work for a living."
"It seems arrogant to assume that the rebellion of humans, specifically, caused problems with all other sentient beings."
"I don't know what people from Great Tang think about other animals being people."
"They're definitely sentient, depending on who you ask, if not as complex as humans. It worries the Buddhist monks no end-- a dog is still stuck in the cycle of samsara, but it can't really do much about it, you know?"
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