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Dante wrote from a world of Italian city-state rivalry, papal pressure, imperial pressure, family factions, vengeance, hatred, and war, making escape from that cycle the central question of The Divine Comedy.
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Vengeance
Iran's first response strategy is to create a global Shia jihad against the American Empire, using Khamenei's death as the demand for long-term vengeance.
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Jiang accepts the student's premise that Aeneas's love for Pallas could appear to motivate Turnus's death, but he rejects vengeance as true love.
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Iran's first response strategy is to create a global Shia jihad against the American Empire, using Khamenei's death as the demand for long-term vengeance.
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Agamemnon makes his retaliation coherent to himself by saying he loves the girl taken from him and therefore must enact vengeance on Achilles.
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Forgiveness must remain possible even for real evil because without it social life collapses into endless revenge between families.
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"Okay? So good and evil are intertwined together. You can never have good unless you first experience evil. Good is not the absence of..."
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"...we as a people, as humans, escape this constant cycle of vengeance and hatred and war? And that's why he wrote The Divine Comedy...."
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"Yeah, I think it's true that like Aeneas, he didn't fail and proceed towards Ternus because he killed him later. But I mean, I..."
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"Okay, yeah. All right. That's a good point, okay? So, your point is, well, Aeneas loves his friend, Pallas. And as a result, it's..."
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"So the Americans, the Israelis will never admit they're doing this but if you look at the map of war supply of ethnic tensions..."
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"...the Americans have killed the um Khamenei. Okay? And that requires vengeance. So is that it can unify the Muslim world. Okay? If you..."
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"...from me who I love. And therefore, I must enact a vengeance on you. Okay? So you see how coherent all this. He is..."
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"...world do we live in we live in a world of vengeance right if you kill my daughter now I have to go kill..."
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"way for this world to work the only way for it just prevail is if we're allowed to forgive each other and previously we..."
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"...we as a people, as humans, escape this constant cycle of vengeance and hatred and war?"
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"...If Papalus, my best friend, died, then I need to seek vengeance against the person who killed him. Okay? But I know it's hard..."
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"...assassinated by the Americans and Israelis, they are motivated to seek vengeance, to martyr themselves for the greater good, to seek eternal paradise."
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