You quoted only the less important part of all I wrote. Let me tell you something: sometimes forgiveness is not the solution, sometimes you need to make someone's life a living hell to set up the score of what they did to you, believe me, I've been there, I am still there. Even now, after 10 years, I sill beat the shit out of that asshole that ra*ed my sister when she was a minor, just because he was her "boyfriend" at the time and was his "right" to fuck my sister even if she refused to do it... and even now he doesn't show any kind of regret for what he has done to her. So, my friend, I must disagree with you, forgiveness is for whom regret the bad actions of the past and try to make amends, not for everyone. If you forgive everyone no matter what, you are just a coward that is afraid of taking action against the people who deserve it.
There is quote form a book that I love: "There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive. But remember that mercy towards an enemy is a betrayal towards a friend".
I hope that this time you will read everything that I wrote and not just what you see fit.
sorry comrade about rape you sister. sincerelly.
but Linda is not a rapist. Rape is not good example in here. sorry.
I quite imagine I can agree that in your case the rapist did not repent. this is bad. Well, there are exceptions to every rule. your case is an exception.
My family also had a case of attempted rape. my mom is a failed victim of a rapist. she split a salad bowl made of Czech crystal (a weighty thing, by the way) on the rapist's head, by the way, it was the husband of my aunt, my mother's sister (do you feel the humor of the situation?). and nothing - later he went to visit and she went to visit her sister. that is, normal relations were still maintained. and my uncle flaunted his scar to death as a reminder of that case. that is, we are in some sense equal. that is, no, they are not equal. we forgave uncle.
True, and he no longer molested my mother with attempts to persuade my mother to have sex.
whether he really repented is not known. now that he is in the grave, this secret will no longer be known.
but I'm sorry, why did you bring the case of rape?
because Linda did not rape anyone.
Linda tried to put the children out of the house. children were 18+. this is normal for america. there is no big deal in that. , Everyone in America does this. children grow up and are put out the door. and if so, why such a double morality? Linda didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
In all seriousness, I can’t understand why no one dares to defend Linda, although what I saw in her actions - I can’t put her unambiguously at fault, deserving such punishment. and therefore I must interpret in her favour. she does not deserve the punishment that her future son-in-law sentenced her to. besides, he sentenced her without trial by jury, committing arbitrariness. if you want, then the MC lynched Linda - he committed lynching, moreover, in a criminal way, involving illegal detention under lock and key and restriction of freedom not related to a court decision.
//sometimes forgiveness is not the solution,// - exaclty!!! SOMETIMES but NOT everytime.
linda is not a rapist not a killer - she deserve a forgiveness!
for a woman of her age (and 40 years is already a serious age for a woman, the age of a female midlife crisis, when it is already a big question to give birth, and therefore, as a mother woman, she can no longer realize herself) a few days of that hell spent in slave barracks - quite enough to shake her soul in order to begin to suspect that in her life she is doing something wrong. that is, she received the first push. it was enough just to let her out and look at her behavior.
peace, dev!
