Usually a form of Disproportionate Retribution. Also gives more than usual resonance to the remark, " I'm Going to Hell for This."Ĭompare with All Crimes Are Equal, Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life, and Failure Is the Only Option. This makes life very easy for the Hell Seeker. This is related to Moral Event Horizon, only with the bar set so high that nearly everyone has already fallen into irredeemable evil. If basically everyone gets sent to Hell in-universe, then it's an example of this trope. In universes like these, All Sins Are Equal, which tends to lead into It Gets Easier, as once one is trivially doomed to Hell, doing some "worse" things will not change anything. Some authors have taken this ease of entry into Hell up a notch, making it not just easier, but almost automatically assured for everyone. This is typically done to make sure that people will stick to a very straight and very narrow path, or at least try to though it may also be a sign that whoever's upstairs is more than a little bit of a jerk, if not actively malevolent. The road to Hell is sometimes defined to be so wide that people with basically slight or even no sin at all will end up there anyway when they die.
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