Faced with what looks from afar like a Hobbesian war of all against all, if not a descent into hell itself, the normal instinct of human beings to exercise their moral faculties grows numb.

面对着好像离自己很远的“所有人针对所有人”的“霍布斯战争”，只要自己还没有卷入，人都会本能的启动自我保护机制，变得麻木起来。

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Finally, Dante alludes to this image of the Virgilian underworld in The Inferno when he describes the descent of humanity, the evil seed of Adam, into the Christian hell.

最后，但丁又在中描述到人性的败坏,亚当在基督教的地狱中撒下的邪恶种子时，含沙射影了维吉尔关于地狱的描写。

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