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> "I believe that a society needs the ability to forget the transgressions of people." >> I hope that's not true, because if it is, our society is doomed. I
by michaelwww 13y ago
> "I believe that a society needs the ability to forget the transgressions of people."
>> I hope that's not true, because if it is, our society is doomed.
I don't think he means what you think he means. I think he means "forgive" the transgressions of people, because who should be punished for the phases we go through in high school or college trying to figure out who we are? I would wager that most people went through at least one period that they are now embarrassed about. Probably the most common would be people who drank to much and acted out but have since figured out that drinking for them is not a good idea and so don't do it.
- DamnYuppie 13y agoThank you for clarifying this for me as that was my intent. "To forgive and forget" was the ideology I was attempting to relate.
- eruditely 13y agoYour example is so naive that it just might become the one period you were embarrassed about.
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- michaelwww 13y agoThe last sentence is clumsily written if that's what you mean eruditely [with erudition; in an erudite manner;] I didn't take the time to make it shorter.
- gohrt 13y agoThere is a huge difference between "forgive" and "forget". As parent notes "forget" isn't going to happen. That is a relic of the past. So we need to "forgive" (or even tolerate, or accept, some things that maybe aren't so bad after all.)