sindri42:cookingwithroxy:revfrog:good questionBecause the boy who cried wolf is a story about tellin
sindri42:cookingwithroxy:revfrog:good questionBecause the boy who cried wolf is a story about telling lies and the consequences, while Cassandra is a story about the arbitrary unfairness of gods. Also, it’s a bit of a missed detail that it wasn’t that her ‘truth’ was disbelieved, but that she was SEEING THE ACTUAL FUTURE, so she was cursed so that none would take heed of her VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.Remarkable how much context was cut out by the author. One would almost wonder why?Cassandra’s story doesn’t have any lessons to teach you. None of the humans in the story made any mistakes; the moral is ‘sometimes the gods will fuck you right up and there’s jack shit you can do about it.’ That might be true, but it’s nowhere near useful.The boy who cried wolf is a cautionary tale, about how if you are repeatedly caught lying nobody will believe you anymore, whether you tell the truth or not. Kind of like how inflating or outright falsifying statistics to make it look like things are worse than they really are for women will cause a large fraction of the population to ignore the actual problems women still have. -- source link