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> Good people do sometimes make terrible mistakes. Seems like it's not the mistake itself was terrible, more the way society treats people for mistakes is terr

• xtiansimon 6y ago
  Hmmm. How society treats people who have made mistakes? How people are treated for mistakes seems to rely on how likable a person is to begin with and how egregious the offense. So, I don’t see that critique of social forgiveness going far in broad terms. It is a fact, however, that mistakes have consequences the costs of which can be far reaching—financially, socially, for many years to come. Like any great fall the question is how quickly you can accept change and move forward. Even harder is to accept yourself as society has weighed your ...contributions. (Ie. corruption) The problem then becomes, of course, how can you rebuild when your resources are also diminished (financial, mentoring, clear thinking, network). But a really charismatic person who is just fun to be around, they’ll bounce back.