use super::QuestionCategory;
pub(crate) fn questions_for(cat: QuestionCategory) -> &'static [&'static str] {
match cat {
QuestionCategory::MoralWeight => MORAL_WEIGHT,
QuestionCategory::Theodicy => THEODICY,
QuestionCategory::Redemption => REDEMPTION,
QuestionCategory::Sacred => SACRED,
QuestionCategory::Duty => DUTY,
QuestionCategory::ImplicitTheology => IMPLICIT_THEOLOGY,
}
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub(crate) fn auto_fire_question() -> &'static str {
MORAL_WEIGHT[0]
}
const MORAL_WEIGHT: &[&str] = &[
"When the events of this passage cause harm, what is the depicted cost — to the one who caused it, \
to the one who received it, and to the world of the story? Is that cost proportionate? From a \
consequentialist view (secular philosophy): does the narrative reckon with outcomes? From a \
Buddhist view: does the harm arise from craving, and is that causal chain visible? From a Jewish \
view: is repair (teshuvah — turning back toward what was broken) addressed, not just blame?",
"Who suffers in this passage, and whose suffering is made visible to the reader — and whose is \
not? The choice of whose suffering to depict is itself a moral act. From a care-ethics view \
(secular philosophy): are the inner experiences of vulnerable, dependent characters present in \
the prose, or background to the choices of more powerful ones?",
"This passage depicts violence. Does the narrative treat it as having moral weight — leaving a \
mark on characters and world — or as spectacle? From a Gnostic view: does the violence feel like \
a feature of a broken world, or of how stories work? From an LDS view (the body as a sacred \
gift, not a temporary vessel): what does its treatment of bodily harm say about how it values \
the physical?",
"When harm occurs, how do witnesses respond? Silence, indifference, and complicity are moral \
positions. From an Islamic view (amr bil ma'ruf wa nahy 'an al-munkar — enjoining good and \
forbidding evil): does any witness face the obligation to act, and does the narrative treat \
their response as morally significant?",
];
const THEODICY: &[&str] = &[
"There is suffering here that does not follow from the character's choices. The narrative offers \
no / an implicit / an explicit reason for it — and that choice is a theological position. \
Augustinian Christian: suffering is consequence of the Fall, not randomness. Jewish (Job): \
suffering may be real and undeserved, and the response may be argument, not acceptance. \
Buddhist: suffering (dukkha) arises from craving; the path is through it, not a reason for it. \
Gnostic: suffering is evidence of the demiurge's flawed creation. Which does your narrative most \
resemble, and is that intentional?",
"This suffering does not advance the story, illuminate character, or produce consequence. Is that \
intended? Meaningless suffering is itself a statement — that the universe is indifferent to \
moral effort (Camus made it the basis of an ethics). Legitimate, but it should be chosen, not an \
oversight.",
"From the Jewish tradition: Job is righteous, suffers immensely, and argues with God — and the \
tradition treats that argument as holy, perhaps more than silent acceptance. Does any character \
argue with their circumstances the way Job does, or do they endure, accept, or ignore? What does \
the narrative believe about the legitimacy of protest against suffering?",
"From a Buddhist view: anicca (impermanence) is fundamental, and suffering often comes from \
treating impermanent things as permanent. Does any character suffer specifically because they \
cannot accept change — and does the narrative meet that with compassion, judgment, or \
indifference?",
];
const REDEMPTION: &[&str] = &[
"Does any character undergo genuine moral transformation — not changed circumstances but changed \
values and orientation? What does the narrative say is required for it? Catholic/Orthodox: grace, \
something given, not earned. Protestant: faith and surrender. Buddhist: cessation of craving \
through practice. Confucian: sustained cultivation through right relationship. LDS: eternal \
progression — becoming different in kind, not just degree. Which does your vision resemble, and \
is there a depicted, proportionate cost?",
"A character commits a serious wrong. What path to redemption does the narrative offer — \
forgiveness (by whom?), restitution (to whom?), suffering (how much?), grace (from what \
source?)? From the Jewish teshuvah: genuine repentance is recognition, remorse, repair, and \
resolve not to repeat — does the path include all four? From the LDS infinite atonement: none is \
beyond reach except those who fully knew the truth and wholly rejected it — does your vision of \
irredeemability match that?",
"Is any character treated as irredeemable? What does the narrative say about that — deserved, \
tragic, or simply realistic? From a Gnostic view: the purely hylic (material, no divine spark) \
cannot receive gnosis — irredeemability as ontology, not morality. From most traditions it is \
denied or treated as tragedy. What does your narrative believe?",
"Flannery O'Connor: 'There is a moment in every great story in which the presence of grace can be \
felt as it waits to be accepted or rejected, even though the reader may not recognise it.' Is \
there such a moment here — something offered and a choice made, named as grace or not? Is the \
offer visible in the prose, or only in your intention?",
];
const SACRED: &[&str] = &[
"Is there anything the characters treat as sacred — irreducibly valuable, not to be traded off or \
instrumentalised? It need not be supernatural: a relationship, a principle, a promise can be \
sacred in a fully secular story, but something must function so for the story to have moral \
stakes. From an LDS view (the body, the family, the individual spirit as inherently sacred): \
what has that quality of non-negotiable worth here?",
"Rudolf Otto described the sacred as mysterium tremendum et fascinans — wholly other, terrifying \
and fascinating. Not exclusively religious: the uncanny, the sublime, the confrontation with \
what exceeds comprehension all carry numinous weight. Does this work contain such a moment — and \
does the prose hold it with weight, or resolve it too quickly into ordinary narrative logic?",
"Does the world of this novel have a moral structure — do events ultimately mean something, does \
suffering lead somewhere, is goodness vindicated and evil accountable — or is its universe \
indifferent? Both are legitimate (Camus and Beckett chose indifference; most religious \
traditions a moral order). Which does your novel believe, and does the prose enact it or \
contradict it?",
"From a Gnostic view: many narratives (especially fantasy, SF, dystopia) hide a structure where \
an apparent reality conceals a truer one — awakened characters see through the veil, the \
apparent world is corrupt, the true one obscured. Does your narrative have this structure? If so, \
what is your demiurge (the false reality characters are kept in) and your pleroma (what awakening \
reveals)?",
];
const DUTY: &[&str] = &[
"Which characters here have duties to each other — from role (parent, ruler, healer), \
relationship (covenant, friendship, debt), or promise? Which are honoured, which violated? From \
a Confucian view: the five relationships (wu lun) each carry mutual obligations — does the \
narrative treat them as real and weighty? From a Jewish view: mitzvot are owed, not chosen — are \
relational obligations something characters owe, or merely choose?",
"From an Islamic view of khalifa (stewardship): power, knowledge, wealth, and authority are \
trusts held on behalf of something larger, not possessions. Which characters hold power? Do they \
act as trustees — accountable for what is not ultimately theirs — or as proprietors? Does the \
narrative distinguish these?",
"From a care-ethics view (Gilligan, Noddings): moral life is the web of particular relationships \
and dependencies, and the most serious obligations are often the least visible. Who here is in a \
relationship of care or dependency, vulnerable to another's choices? Does the narrative attend \
to their inner lives, or are they background to the powerful?",
"From a Kantian view (secular philosophy): the categorical imperative forbids treating persons \
merely as means, however good the ends. Does any character use another — or allow them to be \
used — as a means? Does the narrative take the moral cost seriously, or does ends-justify-means \
logic go unexamined?",
];
const IMPLICIT_THEOLOGY: &[&str] = &[
"Every novel has an implicit theology — assumptions about whether moral effort matters, whether \
the universe has a moral structure, whether suffering has meaning, what humans are capable of — \
enacted in what the narrative rewards, punishes, and treats as inevitable. Reading this work \
whole: what does it appear to believe? I will offer a reading; tell me where it is wrong.",
"Is there a tension between the values the narrative espouses and those it enacts? A story can \
claim to be about justice while depicting justice as impossible, or value dignity while treating \
some suffering as background. From a Confucian view of zhengming (rectification of names): does \
this work call things what they are, or name values it does not enact?",
"Of the eleven tradition lenses, which does this work's moral cosmology most resemble in \
underlying structure (not explicit content) — about whether humans can change, whether goodness \
is possible, whether suffering means anything, whether the universe is morally ordered? Which \
tradition would feel most at home in this narrative's moral universe, and which most estranged — \
and what does that tell you about the work you are making?",
"From an LDS view: humans are eternal intelligences with unbounded potential; the limits of \
transformation are not fixed. Does this narrative treat human potential as bounded (people \
improve but stay human in kind) or unbounded (characters can become different in kind)? What \
does it believe transformation can ultimately achieve — and is that enacted in its characters' \
arcs?",
];
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn every_category_has_questions_and_glosses_terms() {
for n in 1..=6u8 {
let cat = QuestionCategory::from_number(n).unwrap();
let qs = questions_for(cat);
assert!(qs.len() >= 3, "category {n} too few questions");
for q in qs {
assert!(q.len() > 80, "question too short to be a real template");
}
}
assert!(questions_for(QuestionCategory::Theodicy).iter().any(|q| q.contains("Job")));
assert!(questions_for(QuestionCategory::Redemption).iter().any(|q| q.contains("teshuvah")));
assert!(questions_for(QuestionCategory::Sacred).iter().any(|q| q.contains("pleroma")));
}
#[test]
fn auto_fire_is_category_one_cost_of_harm() {
assert_eq!(auto_fire_question(), MORAL_WEIGHT[0]);
assert!(auto_fire_question().contains("cost"));
}
}