What does someone have to do that means no amount of remorse or effort to fix things will get you to forgive them? I don’t mean forgive and forget to the point where they can hurt you again. If someone repeatedly steals from you, forgiveness doesn’t mean putting them in a position where they can steal again.

I’m asking this purely out of curiosity. I’m just wondering what the attitude in my corner of the internet is.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    It’s not about “forgiveness”, it’s about whether the mistakes can be undone.

    Consider you accidentally insult somebody. That can be undone by apologizing.

    What if you murder somebody? That can never be undone.

    • Lemming421@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      People do occasionally forgive murderers.

      Not the victims, admittedly, but their families sometimes.