Jiang argues that lust, gluttony, greed, and wrath are things you do to yourself, while violence, fraud, and treachery are things you do to other people.
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Harm to others
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One student argues that paying a prostitute is worst because it directly damages another person's future capacity to love, while the other two examples primarily damage the self.
Jiang treats coercion as a separate aggravating condition: if paying for sex coerces the other person, then that case becomes much worse because it now harms another person's life directly.
Jiang says entering the city of Dis means entering the part of Hell reserved for people who have harmed others and offended God, not merely themselves.
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"the difference is um amongst these different sins and i mean the most basic difference is lust gluttony greed and wrath there are things..."
"I think the first one of giving the million dollars is the worst sin and then uh the love the love letters is the..."
"um sin and it's expression yes and we say that uh sins that impact others are worse so like the robotic robotic wife is..."
"so it's conditional okay we're assuming that in number one um she's a prostitute and she just agrees right um like she's willing to..."
"remember where we are okay we've crossed the river oxford nicholas and we're in so the river of oscar sticks and we are now..."
"...end. And each such end by force or fraud brings harm to other men. However, fraud is man's peculiarity. God finds it more displeasing,..."
"...to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't really harm other people, okay?"
"...you can do whatever you want as long as you don't harm others. Well what Roesler is saying is that's also part of property...."
"...thing when, in fact, it's an evil thing that can only harm others, OK?"
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