So, if one must make sense of the senseless here, then one must find some “greater good” in what to all appearances would be an unmitigated evil. So it was that the Lombard and Thomas arrived at their “amplification of beatitude” argument, since this endues hell with at least an extrinsic value. It was a poignantly desperate attempt to find some purpose in what would otherwise obviously be recognizable as an endless act of needless vindictiveness. But it is an absurd and depraved argument from every imaginable angle. To begin with, there is something inherently silly about the notion that
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