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by int_19h 1733 days ago
To be fair, the Mandate of Heaven was often judged in practice based on (somewhat) preventable disasters. E.g. in case of famine, it was supposed to be the duty of the government to maintain sufficient supplies in good times to remedy it. So the connection between bad governance and loss of the Mandate was generally more direct than in this example.