I think Candide deserves most of his punishments that happened throughout the book. Sure, many of the times is he naive and innocent of which "crime" is actually wrong. However, I feel like if he was not punished the first time, he would never know the difference from what is wrong and what is right.
I don't think his innocence and ignorance gives him an excuse to kill people. And he didn't even kill just once. He killed three people. I'm sure he is well aware that killing people would be wrong since he repeatedly saw the misery and the horrors of dying and death.
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I started thinking later about the post I wrote...and the difficulties and punishments he had to go through, which seemed like a reflection of some of the harsh daily lives people go through. Do people really deserve to be living in the dumps- even if they did something bad? What if the crime was something "trivial"? How can we judge what is trivial and what is not though?
It seems like you are questioning yourself and what you actually believe in. It seems like there really is not right answer though.
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