(December 12, 2015 at 11:01 am)Evie Wrote:(December 12, 2015 at 10:58 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: 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.
Fear wasn't mentioned in there. Forgiveness wasn't mentioned either. And there was a reason for that. You have to take my options as they are described and not imagine anything else beyond that. You seem incapable of doing that.
Besides, it wasn't meant for you. You do understand what I want CL to, or at least I hope you do.
