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Jiang uses the Ugolino scene to reopen a paradox about babies, innocence, and where children belong in Dante's afterlife architecture.
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Innocence
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "the divine comedy okay do you guys know uh and this this is like the second last contour the penultimate contour right what is..."
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The quoted passage presents greediness as a force that pulls mortals downward and corrupts the good blossoming of human will.
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Jiang says the crucial psychological shift is Dante's recognition that exile and isolation were not his fault.
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Jiang says the continuing objection is that an infinite God appears free to choose any redemptive mechanism, so selecting the punishment of an innocent Jesus still feels unjust.
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Jiang says the lowest sphere itself signals that God does not fully approve of Piccarda and Costanza's outcome, which turns their apparent innocence into a theological paradox.
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Jiang insists that Piccarda clearly did nothing wrong, so any placement in a lower sphere still demands a deeper account than simple rule-breaking.
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Oedipus is Jiang's example of tragedy as fate rather than simple moral guilt: in Sophocles, Jiang says Oedipus did nothing wrong, yet fate and accident still destroy him.
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"the divine comedy okay do you guys know uh and this this is like the second last contour the penultimate contour right what is..."
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"babies and don is like wait a minute i thought virgil told me babies were all in limbo and but you had these babies..."
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"...-ending downpours turn the sound plums into rotten empty skins for Innocence and trust are to be found only little children. Then they flee..."
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"So the most important thing, and you say this, is like, the body knows it's not his fault for his exile and isolation. This..."
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"Okay, right, okay. So this is the question, okay? If you are God, and you are infinite and eternal, why did you have to..."
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"where she was also a nun and she was also stolen to be married off by her brother okay and so it seems as..."
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"you need to go i understand this but this morning we just said that god was all forgiving all loving i'm not judgmental this..."
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"you a much better person does it make sense guys all right even crime is this arm of habits horror and all its contagion..."
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"he blinds himself and then he goes into exile okay and if you actually read the tragedy by Sophocles he did nothing wrong it..."
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"...an outcry but a sigh there i am with the infant innocence those whom the teeth of death had ceased before me they were..."
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"...not an outcry but aside there i am with the infant innocence those whom the teeth of death had ceased before they were set..."
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