Another week of dante presentations. They were pretty interesting this week, my favorites were the 9th circle of hell and the eight circle. In the eighth circle, there are many pits and ditches in which different sinners are placed, one is for flatterers. Their punishment is to live in a river of human waste. The contrapasso in this is that everything they said in their mortal life is a load of crap, they told people bullcrap for their own gain. I think that they are pretty deserving of the punishment. I believe in working toward what you want, not achieving it through easy manipulation.
In the 9th circle are the traitors. They are frozen in the river in the deepest circle of hell with satan. I don't think the treasonous deserve to be the lowest of the lowest. Sometimes there needs to be defiance against the government, otherwise we would become a totalitarian society, where no freedoms are permitted. A good example is Edward Snowden. The government says he committed treason, but he has opened the eyes of the american people to the governments infringements on our rights.
No comments:
Post a Comment