What your describing isn't anything to do with what we traditionally consider forgiveness - either in Western or Eastern traditions of spirituality, or contempo

What your describing isn't anything to do with what we traditionally consider forgiveness - either in Western or Eastern traditions of spirituality, or contemporary psychotherapy. You're describing self protection. Which is an important set of skills for resilience and harm prevention, but has little to nothing to do with forgiveness. I'm afraid you're editorialising by creating a straw man rape victim argument. Just to be clear - although this is not the topic under discussion - I support rape victims attempts to obtain justice through the criminal justice system. And obviously agree that no one should stay in a situation where physical or sexual violence is threatened or likely. To be clear I'm not advising people to allow themselves to continue to be harmed. I'm not engaging in prescriptive advice at all. Rather I'm describing the process of overcoming the pain of emotional (and sometimes physical) trauma. Forgiveness is not about any of the above. It's about moving on (internally) from continual retraumatisation - after the source of trauma is no longer present. It's an internal emotional process for the most part. But one that cannot begin until the person engaging in it is physically and emotionally safe.