After finishing Dante's Inferno I noticed how sharply Dante's view on right and wrong differs from our modern interpretations of the concept. Dante was molded by the era he lived in as well as his personal interaction with some sins. Dante seems willing to cast people into Hell for all eternity for crimes and sins that we would consider trivial now and days. For example, all of the souls who are trapped in Limbo for eternity because they were not born in time for the coming of Jesus Christ and "For such defects, and not for other guilt". To a modern reader this punishment seems unusually harsh for those who had no control over their own fate. Another example would be the ranking of the sins by Dante. In Dante's eyes murder and rape are seen as crimes of passion and are therefore "better" than crimes such as treason that are conscious decision to go against another human or god. In our modern society the most serious of crimes are ones of passion, such as murder, which Dante views as lesser. The difference between Dante's opinion of sins and our modern interpretation of those same sins show the change in morality between his time and ours. In Dante's time of extreme religious observance he would view crimes against God as the ultimate sin but, in our more secular times the same does not hold true. Dante's views on sin were also shaped by his personal experiences with treachery and deceit in his native Florence, where he was personally betrayed and forced into exile. This experience with betrayal in his own life had a profound impact on Dante's ranking of the sins in Hell.