One limitation of forgiveness is that when a perpetrator is more intelligent than you then you can’t always verify that their apology is honest. So if you forgive someone who lied in their apology then is this mere negligence or can forgiveness itself be evil? A dreamy way to view forgiveness is as if forgiveness can instill apathy in the perpetrator such that they wouldn’t feel more serious to commit more crimes if victims weren’t taken seriously to be forgiving. Hence a postmodern version of forgiveness is that if no one in society cared then no one would feel supported to commit crime as if forgiveness were a millennial time-travelling working backwards mechanism. Minority Report appears to pre-empt the rise of porn in future generations knowing that violent people would have to predict similar violent people!
Minority Report Computer Scene:
Please note that from a communication standpoint, when there is too much to unpack in such a short space, nothing gets unpacked as it should (to be of benefit, and shouldn't that truly be a yearned-for purpose?). I'm quite sure I don't see or understand/feel all the context in this, but allow me to address one single exposed aspect: that forgiveness (and repentance) is conditional, never absolute. Both are the most fundamentally-psychologically sound ways to grow, in constancy and health--but of course only in proportion to how much is actually understood about it.
Anything might be said or thought about forgiveness, but that only becomes meaningful when connected into the larger picture of benevolent growth and how that actually functions in the collective-human psyche (all else are memes, as the modern culture might say). So consider carefully what this means: there *is* no vacuum, only interconnections in our life.
The onus of forgiveness isn't on one who gives it, but on the gifted one to prove worthy of it; in other words, forgiveness is only fully valid when pared with actual repentance as a way to complete the act and bring forth benevolent progress. (Forgiveness can partially help the giver in some cases, but again, it is incomplete without proof of repentance; more on that to follow.)
I am reminded of an exceptionally insightful-wise person who was quoted saying, "Go, [you are forgiven], and sin no more." Of course this has been mistaken (often willfully) for a long time, but the interconnection and fundamental beauty is still on offer for those with the willpower to actually spend the time to understand it and
benefit from it. The woman who had just been saved (quite literally) from an immediate death sure understood this in its full context. *She* would have felt the truth: that the forgiveness was truly only a reprieve unless she was sincere enough to have that encounter *change* how she thought and acted--the very essence of growth. Had she fallen back thoughtlessly on old patterns and mistakes, you can be certain the next reckoning would be even worse than her current one (if only for the loss of potential and lesson-opportunity). See the inseparable interconnections? Please dwell upon them until you do.
So, one need not consider or worry about some extra clever-devious person gaining forgiveness from you in error, because that is quite impossible,
since the completeness of forgiveness depends upon the completeness of repentance. There is no trickiness devious enough to get around this fact, no matter the "intelligence" attempting to do so (and lying about it or attempting to change the fundamental or verbiage meaning of forgiveness, as so many have tried to do in the past to suit their own insular-selfish ends, will have no affect on the squandered growth opportunities). If they lied about repentance, then they have ultimately lost the chance to change/improve themselves. No one can trick their way into becoming an enlightened and potential-fulfilled human being.
Cheers.
