If warnings start sounding cliche that’s how you know you’re doomed, warnings became cliche to the folks who lived in Noah’s time until it was too late to take action
Their cup of wrath is being filled, and they must drink of it fully, meanwhile it’s an opportunity for those who value righteousness to take their stand and reject ungodliness as lot did
Not to oppress them but to give them a chance at a better life, remember in those days if the men were slaughtered in battle the women would find it difficult to survive