Loving and forgiving your enemies

[Edwardo Piet]

I said nothing about forgiveness yet in that context. You're getting ahead of yourself and putting words in my mouth. You do this all the time. You assume I mean something even though I didn't deliberately say it. It's very hard to have an open discussion about things when you assume whatever you like about what the person you're discussing with means.

In your hypothetical scenario I would say "If someone attacked me trying to kill me and the only way I would stay alive would be to kill them, I might do that out of fear but I'd still forgive them".

So yes, you were raising a false dichotomy.