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Is it morally wrong not to forgive?
| morality is a social construct
+there are different moral concepts, so it depends on who you ask
in the end it doesn't matter tho
| I think it goes according to crime and motive, things really evil shouldnt be forgiven, like a moral event horizon
| Morality is wrong concept all by itself
I guess forgiving a crime can be good, but nobody should be judged for not forgiving one
| Morality is wrong concept all by itself
I guess forgiving a crime can be good, but nobody should be judged for not forgiving one
| Morality is wrong concept all by itself
I guess forgiving a crime can be good, but nobody should be judged for not forgiving one
| Fuck, I don't know, why it posted that three times
I'm sorry
| You're not oblidged to forgive, but at the same time I think forgiveness is often the right choice.
| No need to forgive someone. Just don't go out of your way to get vengeance. "Eye for an eye leaves the world blind" kind of shit you know?
| I think it's good to forgive someone who truly repents even if they are for example a murderer. At the same time it's dumb to forgive someone who will obviously keep offending even if they're just a cookie thief.
| Depending on the intent I guess. Like if it were an accident probably mentally better for that person to forgive.
| >>238762 But is it really important if he repents? That still doesn’t change the fact that he killed someone
| forgive but hold people responsible
| >>239294
This. There's a reason why we have the compromise of "I don't expect you to forget, but try to forgive."
No one wants us to "forgive" a murderer by letting them go. On the contrary, we should continue to take what steps we should to make sure that person doesn't hurt us or anyone else again.
But forgiveness is about moving past hatred, it's as much about oneself as it is the other.
| So yes if you believe in a limited but objective morality like me, forgiveness is "good".
Is it "bad" not to forgive? If a lack of love is bad, then ultimately yes. Not an easy pill to swallow, but if you also have degrees of "wrongness" then we can imagine that it would be of a relatively small degree if that hatred was thrust upon you by the one who wronged you in the first place.
| Depends how serious this is. If we are talking like. Murder...No one would blame you for not forgiving them. But if you say....Got in a fight with your girlfriend who said some horrible stuff. It's better to forgive and move on than just sit there and be pouty at then all day
| Who cares
| Not forgiving is holding a grudge no? Girls are known for keeping a lot of grudges it's whatever
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| Do you think forgiving the culprit of a crime is morally wrong?