The story of Sodom and Gomorrah begins with god wanting to destroy these two cities. God talks with Abraham before completely destroying these two cities and Abraham is looking to save some people in these cities. They decide if there are ten good people God will spare the city. Two angels go into the city to find ten people, they stay at Abraham's nephew's house. The angels however cause every man to want to have sex with them. Lot offers his two virgin daughters to the mob, but they instead violently pursue the newcomers. Lot, his daughters, and the angels escape the mob's wrath. They run away from the city as God rains burning sulfur on the towns.
I think there will always be unfair punishment in the world. People always feel a need to punish people for crimes they have committed but based of the judges personal experiences some punishments can be worse than others. In addition to this people in higher power will feel they need to assert their dominance over people seemingly beneath their stature. No punishment is even ok because it comes around in other ways. A punishment could be determined on the aftereffects of a crime on the individual. For example in school if a kid has his phone out, they wont learn the material and will most likely do poorly on the test. Their punishment is their bad grade of the test. But if it affects other people that person should be punished by another person.
You wrote a good strong summary of the story, I liked it. Also your second paragraph brought up good ideas about how punishment could be determined by the after effects of a crime. I also liked that.
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