Why Forgive?

[dimreepr]

i don't believe you ever can truly forgive someone if they hurt you strongly. A daughter can never truly forgive her mother for abusing her physically. The families of murdered children never forgive the murderer. A child may forgive his friend for stealing his lollipop.

 

It certainly depends on the gravity of the act, but because of the fact that things that impact you cannot be easily forgotten, therefore it is hard to truly forgive, the definition of forgiveness is mostly seen throughout biblical interpretations, which state to offer a sacrifice, to lose something of yourself out of human compassion in order to forgive someone. And that I must say is utterly useless and you do not have to forgive everybody that hurts you. It is your choice to make and shouldn't be tied to anyone else's point of view.

 

 

Again (the same nonsensical reply in my other thread) you have obviously not read any of this thread either; this only compounds my opinion that your thread contains nothing meaningful.

Edited July 9, 2015 by dimreepr

[overtone]

If you forgive, you save yourself from wasting time on the illusion of revenge. You also forestall doing injury in error - the possibility that you are wrong in some way or to some degree about what happened, inaccurate in your response. You curtail feuds, which involve innocent people in ongoing trouble and waste their time as well. You avoid diverting resources from repair of the injury and help for the injured.

 

And you establish the institution and therefore the possibility of forgiveness, which offers hope of atonement and rehabilitation to the wrongdoer, of rejoining the cooperative community - preventing the self-estrangement and loss of valuable members via one mistake or ill considered impulse however serious the consequences.

 

A community that forgives nothing will lose most of its children in their teenage years. So the adults in a community have to be capable of forgiveness to some significant degree - and of being forgiven.