Punishment

A recently deceased man who led a truly wicked life finds he will not be spending eternity where he might have hoped. And he's met at the gates of hell by the devil himself, who walks our poor subject down a long passageway toward his ultimate destiny. On the way, they pass a room where someone is being pelted by stones.
"Who is that?" the man asks, shuddering. "That was a swindler," says the devil.
Then they pass a room where someone is being dipped repeatedly in burning oil.
"And who is that?" the man asks fearfully. "That was a murderer," says the devil.
In the next room, there's a man making love to the most beautiful woman our subject has ever seen.
"And who is that man?" he asks. "That man is a lawyer," says the devil.
At last they arrive at a room filled with fire and lined with hot coals, and the devil says, "This is where you shall spend eternity." "Now, wait a minute!" the man protests. "I understand the punishment of the swindler, and of the murderer, and I know that I myself have not been a good person, but tell me something, Why does that lawyer get to make love to that woman for all eternity?"
And at that the devil rises up fully on his haunches. In a booming voice he says, "Who are you to question that woman's punishment?"

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