One student argues that serious discussion should not reduce Dante's political world to a clean good-bad dichotomy, because even minor characters operate inside a complex plan.
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Good and bad
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"...there is the retribution there is uh you know uh good and bad but we cannot really you know just attack or anybody or..."
"...about the world is we apply labels to things, okay? Like good, bad, beneficial, not beneficial. That's not how history works, okay? History works..."
"...values and norms of people, what they believe to be good and bad. They dictate habits and customs, how you live your life. And..."
"...system of course is a democracy and this is both good and bad okay it's good in that it allows for innovation it allows..."
"...like 35 percent uh uh muslim at this point you know good bad or indifferent whether you like like that or not i mean..."
"...how Americans differentiate the world. It divides the world into good and bad. Good are those nations that believe in human rights, believe in..."
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