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The students reinforce Jiang's correction by arguing that a movable punishment or a private arrangement would break Inferno's internal logic and falsely treat Beatrice as if she had transactional rights over damnation.
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Jiang says Dante's God is not transactional: divine judgment is not a bargain and Beatrice would have no power to cut a deal that suspends the moral structure of the universe.
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A student contrasts love with transactional reason by arguing that love accepts obligations without demanding return, whereas reason keeps asking what benefit comes back.
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"And it's really important, yes? Because it doesn't really make sense because your punishment would change, and so it breaks the whole thing about..."
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"beatrice has the right to kind of do packs almost like she's gone yeah yeah but this is really"
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"important okay in dante's world god is not transactional maybe in our world maybe in the catholic church but god himself is not transactional..."
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"Yeah, maybe I'm saying just like, you know, in ancient China, people just don't believe in logic. They just believe in, for example, like,..."
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"...who's come to help america with itself off the disease of transaction capital to get rid of the british okay to fight another 1776...."
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"...to basically monitor everything you do online and control all financial transactions. It can basically program your bank account. So like, you can't buy..."
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"...the exchange currency rates. And they also allow for seamless financial transactions, the SWIFT system, basically. Then Wall Street and the state of London..."
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"...isn't zero quite, but it's at the stage where there are transactions you don't want to put through the SWIFT system or through the..."
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"...idea because eventually you become the guarantor of like every economic transaction in the world and it causes excess liquidity to flow into your..."
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"...the global reserve currency. And that meant basically that for every transaction that you made, with U.S."
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"...signed document that shows that he was the one directing the transactions from Qatar to Hamas."
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"...lend me money to buy things but also help me facilitate transactions. Okay. And this is the idea of transnational capital. And transnational capital..."
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