> or are transgressions for which no forgiveness is possible. Is that really a thing people believe? I don't think that's actually true. B/c people know they f

> or are transgressions for which no forgiveness is possible. Is that really a thing people believe? I don't think that's actually true. B/c people know they fuck up, and they will ask the people around them for forgiveness, and they think they can deserve it. And when someone who actually matters in our lives does something wrong, we can sometimes forgive them. I think the problem is: - the most highly visible cases are often public figures who did something wrong for a long time and only expressed when they were caught or caught and publicly shamed. It's hard to believe these people are sincere when they repent. - the public performance of unforgiveness has itself become an opportunity for virtue signaling. - the most sincere apologies are for these reasons given and received out of the public eye, and I think we then don't see the real response modeled very often.