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which might be translated moral blindness.
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In other words, he no longer can think straight
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and so he will do something dangerous,harmful,
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and very ultimately bad for himself,and
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when he does whatever it is,
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he is struck by Nemesis,the goddess of retribution.
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Well, of course,the most famous Greek case,I
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think of these things,
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is in Sophocles' play Oedipus the King,
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which illustrates it perfectly well.
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Oedipus is a brilliant man; he achieves the kingship of his city
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because of his extraordinary intelligence,and