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Jiang frames the placement of thieves as a real paradox: Dante ranks theft below spectacular violence even though theft can seem situationally understandable.
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The Ten Commandments do not straightforwardly justify Dante's ranking because theft appears there as a lower-order prohibition compared with direct offenses against God.
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One student's secular explanation is that hidden crimes are punished more severely because their secrecy makes them harder for human judges to discover and deter.
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Jiang rejects detectability as the final explanation because God does not face human evidentiary limits and therefore cannot be fooled by hidden crime.
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A student's natural-law angle is that theft is deeply disruptive because even animals enforce boundaries around possession and are intensely reactive to stealing.
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Jiang's main explanation is that theft is terrible because hidden stealing destroys social trust, forces generalized suspicion, and can redirect blame onto innocent people.
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Jiang reads the snake punishment as a metaphor for the thief's social effect: slippery hidden injury, lingering venom, obsessive suspicion, and misdirected retaliation.
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Jiang says the serpent imagery in the thieves' bolgia deliberately recalls Genesis and the original breach of trust between God and humanity.
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"Okay. All right. So we are pretty far down in Inferno. And here in the circle of fraud, we now meet thieves. Okay. Can..."
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"Why is thievery so evil as it warrants such a low status in, in hell? Right. And also like if someone's stealing, it's often,..."
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"I think in like the biblical terms, the, the 10 sins, the greatest 10 sins you can commit, was like the first few was..."
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"So it was not a big deal, right? Because like the one, the one, the one is like, do not, you know, worship other..."
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"And those are really bad, right? But like adultery and like,"
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"Right. So, so, so in the, the 10 commandments, there's this hierarchy, right? And so like, so like stealing is actually pretty low. Whereas..."
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"One reason, you know, in criminology or in law and economics, uh, you know, the punishment is sometimes, uh, married, uh, apartment, uh, is..."
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"Okay. Okay. That makes sense. But God knows everything, right? So you can't, you can never hide your crime from God. Uh, yes. Yes."
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"I wonder if, uh, I haven't done any, any research on, on natural law and what Aristotle or Aristotle or, or, uh, Augustine would..."
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"That's a very good point. Okay. Like animals take stealing very, very seriously. They're very, they're very protective of their own property. Yes. Okay...."
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"Because thievery affects, uh, the person who's been thieved capacity to love and trust, uh, in the future. Like maybe for example, say you're..."
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"Yes. Does that make sense to you? Okay. The problem with thievery is not the stealing. The fact is that it's so no one..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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