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Jiang frames the Francesca episode as two lovers from Dante's own world explaining that they fell in love, eloped, and were both killed by the husband.
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Adultery
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Jiang insists that the class cannot explain adultery by emotion alone; they have to specify exactly what cheating destroys and why that destruction matters.
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A student argues that cheating is bad because it breaks a vow or covenant, and that covenant carries sacrificial seriousness rather than being a casual promise.
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Jiang says cheating matters because it breaks the bond created by the vow rather than because sex itself is magically contaminating.
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"what are you thinking okay so um virgil says to dante if you really understand how you talk to these different souls okay so..."
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"I, I understand, I understand all this, but I'm saying like, okay, first let's establish what cheating does, why is cheating a bad thing?..."
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"Because you have broken a vow, a covenant, and you have to redeem or paid in blood."
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"And, and what do they, how do they make this vow?"
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"So there's now this bond, right? Yes. So when you cheat, what you're doing is you're, you're breaking this bond. That's a problem. Yeah."
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"That's right. So what you've done is you've changed the nature of the relationship from one based on trust to one. Now that is..."
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"...that. And then the rest, it was like, do not commit adultery, do not lie, do not sin, like steal, do not covet. But..."
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"And those are really bad, right? But like adultery and like,"
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"it was like, oh yeah. But the principle behind adultery and all the other things were all summarized into."
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"...feasting and rejoicing. Sabbatians encountered and practiced and encouraged sexual promiscuity, adultery, father -daughter incest, and religious orgies. Yikes. So, inversion was a big..."
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