A student's accepted extension is that sin becomes heavier and heavier like a snowball falling into the abyss.
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Snowball
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Jiang says once people begin choosing evil, the resulting moral decline behaves like a snowball: one bad act leads to another until the right path is hard to recover.
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"...insatiable about falling into the abyss. And it's almost like a snowball that snowballs down. That I think it just gets heavier and heavier..."
"...of evil, what often happens is that it becomes like a snowball, okay? Okay? Rolling down and accumulating. So we do one stupid act,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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