Collateral Damage // Braylan Stringfellow

     To start this blog off, I want to define what collateral damage means. Collateral damage is harm done to something unintended. So you may be wonder what this has to do with Paradise Lost? Well in Book X Jesus is giving out the different punishments for Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. In these punishments there was one thing made clear, these punishments did not just affect them. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they knew that the had the punishment of death, so they went and hid like any kid does after he does something wrong to not get caught. When Jesus found them, he gave out the proper punishment for them which was not only death. Eve and all women after her will have a painful experience during child birth, and Adam along with everyone who works with plants will have to deal with an uncooperative ground and work in general will be hard. Also all of their offspring will die as well now. Adam and Eve knew that they would be punish but they would have never intended on this one action to cause all this damage to mankind as a whole.

     Sadly collateral damage from our own actions happens today too. This is why we need to carefully think about every decision we make. Second hand smoke is just one overused example of hurting others with our own choices. 


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  1. Taylor ViceSeptember 27, 2021 at 7:24 PM

    Braylan, your post goes along very well with mine. I also touched on the topic of our decisions affecting others, and I do not think everyone truly realizes how much of an impact we could have on someone else's life. Reading your post, I thought of another example. A lot of people die due to drunk drivers, which is a choice made by the intoxicated person and affecting the life of an innocent person. Really good post! // Taylor Vice

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