Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Moral Outrage

In today's society, crime is taken very seriously, just as sinning was in Dante's time. Majority of people who commit a crime and are convicted, end up spending lots of time in prison. In The Inferno, anyone who was a sinner in their life, went to a different leve of hell depening on their sin. This is just like in prisons where your sentence depends on the severity of your crime. A very well-known murder today is the Joran van der Sloot murders. He murdered two young girls and is now behind bars for it. In Dante's time, a famous person who is violent against their neighbor would be Alexander the Great. He was a king who shed lots of blood so in his after life he is stuck in this circle immersed in boiling blood forever depending on their specific murder.  
On May 30th, 2005, Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba when on a vacation with her school. During the time of her trip, she had met a local named Joran van der Sloot at a bar and on the night of the 30th, Natalee left a nightclub with Joran and was never seen again. Joran was arrested June 3rd along with his two brothers. After finding a lack of evidence, the boys were released. This happened a few more times until things took a major turn in the case. On May 30th, 2010, exactly one year after Natalee went missing, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez went missing in Peru. Coincidently, the young lady had been hanging out with a man with a dark past that she did not know about. Later that evening, Ramirez left a hotel in Peru with van der Sloot. She was found dead the next morning.These two events were no coincedence. Both girls were murdered by a man who got away with it all the first time but know is finallly about to be behind bars.
In my opinon, there is no excuse for murdering someone. Even if it was for your country or your family, taking someone elses life is unexcusable. No matter what someone did to you or you did to them, you do not kill them. That is just wrong. So you could say I agree with what Dante says in circle 7. If I were creating my version of hell, anyone who killed someone would have to do somethinf very similar to what actually happens to them in life. 

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