That leads to an interesting philosophical discussion: what does "forgiving" actually technically involve? It's a fuzzy word. The way I interpret the word (and

That leads to an interesting philosophical discussion: what does "forgiving" actually technically involve? It's a fuzzy word. The way I interpret the word (and I suspect others also do) is "crossing the offense off the metaphorical list of outstanding committed wrongs". If I forgive a debt then I'm removing it from my list of stuff that I expect to be repaid. It means you no longer need to worry about me holding it over your head whenever we bump into each other on the street. And with a bad enough misdeed I think that's an unreasonable expectation.