Law Practice
Oct. 3, 2012
Dante's white-collar justice
According to Dante, both people and animals can be violent, but only humans can twist their reason towards evil by willfully committing fraud against their fellows. By Abraham Meltzer
"R eading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat." - Brown v. Entertainment Merchant's Ass'n, 131 S. Ct. 2729 (2011).
Even if you prefer playing video games the Supreme Court is right: Medieval poet Dante Alighieri's ideas on justice are worth considering - especially his thoughts on white-collar wrongdoing expressed in "Inferno." ...
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