Jiang's term for Dante's fitting punishment, where the sinner's body permanently enacts the kind of rupture the sinner caused in the world.
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counter-penalty
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "limb pierced through and won his limb hacked off that would not match the hideousness of the ninth abyss no barrel even though it's..."
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The punishment fits the crime because the sowers of schism are physically split, reopened, and dismembered again and again.
Jiang explains Bertrand de Born's decapitation as counter-penalty for causing civil war between a father king and his son.
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"limb pierced through and won his limb hacked off that would not match the hideousness of the ninth abyss no barrel even though it's..."
"supreme leader and the sunnis believe no that's not necessarily the case okay and that caused a massive schism which continues to today okay..."
"dex is out so cruelly the shia muslims are constantly ripped in half and split all the time okay all right uh let's keep..."
"who still breathing go to view the dead see if there's any pain as great as this and so that I you may carry..."
"of counter penalty okay so we are we are these sinners committed they sold discord and this discord became permanent right so we talked..."
"...we moved ahead, hearing of gluttony had since prepaid by sorry penalties. Then, with more space along the lonely path, a thousand steps and..."
"...eyes unravel what's beneath those stones, you can already see what penalty strikes each."
"...which drove my heart. For such pride, here one pays the penalty, and I not be here yet, had it not been that, while..."
"...he goes, with no rest since his death. This is the penalty extracted from those who there overreached. And I, but if a spirit..."
"...drawn close enough to see clearly the way they paid their penalty, the force of grief pressed tears out of my eyes. These souls,..."
"...weather. I looked for peace with God at life's end. The penalty I owe for sin would not be less than now, but I..."
"...call to mind the souls of upper hell who bear their penalties outside the city, you'll see why they have been set off from..."
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