Reply #30: no YOU are making an incorrect [View All]

[Bluerthanblue]

correlation.
Forgiveness doesn't mean not having to face the consequences- NOT AT ALL- forgiveness is not lowering yourself to the same depths as the person who has wronged you- If a person needlessly kills someone I love, and I desire to 'do the same' back to them, then I'm NO BETTER. Now, instead of their being one dead body, there are 2, and now, those who love the person I just killed in revenge can use my killing to 'justify' killing me, and then my friends can do the same, and we all spiral down into the hell we live in today.

However, the person who needlessly killed someone I love has demonstrated they are incapable of living without tight boundaries around them, and have forfeited their right to live freely. Until they come to understand that killing is not an option- that they have violated society's ability to trust them to live responsibly, they can and should be restrained from repeating the same actions on others. It is only fair to society, AND the murderer. Yes, it costs the 'victims'- and no there isn't the satisfaction of 'blood vengeance'- but that is what civilization is supposed to be all about. Isn't it???

I'm all for holding bush and SEVERAL others accountable for the wrongs they have done to thousands of people- Americans citizens and foreigners alike. But if an action is wrong- it is WRONG.
Hate isn't going to cancel out hate.

If you mix acid, with acid, you only get more acid. If you mix acid with base, you neutralize the acid to a more Benign substance. And you may need to keep that acid in a labeled container until you are sure no one will be harmed by it, or can find a way to neutralize the danger of having others exposed to it.

Forgiveness isn't getting off scot free. I forgave someone who did me grievous harm. But they still had to face the consequences of their actions- And their life will never be the same, as mine isn't. But I am also grateful that I don't have to feel regrets for doing to them, (or allowing others to do) what brought me great suffering and pain. Revenge isn't sweet. its poison.

peace,
blu