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Gbill7's avatar

One aspect of forgiveness that most people find very hard is that you forgive the PERSON, not necessarily the ACT. If someone has violently harmed you, robbed you, raped you, killed someone you love, how can you possibly forgive such a thing? You forgive the PERSON - his weakness, ignorance, mistakenness - not the terrible ACT. If you can wrap your mind around that, forgiveness comes easier.

“Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.” - Colossians 3:13

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Kurt Arner's avatar

For ‘society’ to forgive in the wake of the COVID-19 debacle, we first need a reckoning, followed by punishment and yes, some genuine apologies.

Apart from a few public figures who have changed their tune, the apologies are largely non-existent.

Most perpetrators are never going to admit wrongdoing, let alone apologize. Such is human nature. The mind can conjure up ways to cope rationalizing retaining of a deeply-held narrative, for bad actors as well as their victims.

This is classic cognitive dissonance. And it applies to so much more than pandemics or health care.

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