He was clearly doing what was right in his own mind... but to the troops, it was like committing a sin and the only way to repent for it was to be punished. I believe being beat nearly to death for any sort of crime is going too far. After all, who are we to shed the blood of another man on the earth's ground. There are men out there who commit a myriad of crimes, crimes in which are not seen as crimes but are worse like shedding another's blood for pure "nationalism", and are not even considered to be in the category of punishment.
But that was just one punishment he endured within his whole journey through the hells and heavens of life. This punishment, we could say, was one of many he would encounter after being thrown from his “paradise.” A small peck on the lips was all that was needed to punish him for his life. Was throwing him out into a cold world a truly just punishment? Not to mention, Cunegonde was the one who initiated the kiss. Fair?
Well, one wrong turn at the beginning, just a slight coincidence, and he is forever shunned from paradise.
We can refer back to Adam and Eve… does banishing them from the perfect world seem like a just punishment for eating an apple from a “forbidden” tree… but if they were not to have eaten this apple, would we be existing here now? Or do you believe we would have been in a better place? Do you believe Candid would have been in a better place than happening by some random chance to come in contact with a situation which would lead to punishments…
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