RE: Can a mistake be so big, that the one who did will never have your respect again?
February 17, 2019 at 6:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2019 at 6:10 pm by paulpablo.)
Taken to extremes I'd say yes. If someone accidentally killed all of close living relatives by some sort of gross negligence while driving or something like that I can't think of anything they could do to get me to feel anything apart from hate for them.
The talk about good intentions vs bad intentions, capability and forgiveness is a bit confusing unless specific examples can be given as to what you mean.
In general I find it easy to forgive people with good intentions that are very incapable and make lots of mistakes. Children at a toddlers age, without proper supervision, could make lots of big mistakes without bad intentions but I'd find it easier to forgive them in most situations I can think of than someone who has bad intentions.
I don't even know if it's considered a mistake for a person with bad intentions to do something bad, since by definition they are intending to do bad things. For example if a person who intends to molest a child makes a mistake in what he is doing it means he will fail to molest that child, I have less respect for a child molester who successfully molests a child than I do for a person who tries to save the life of a person who wasn't even dying and ends up killing someone.
There's probably some scenario where my feelings might be different to the situation but I don't know. Obviously people with very good intentions can make catastrophic fuck ups, but instinctively I feel I still have more respect for people with good intentions.
The talk about good intentions vs bad intentions, capability and forgiveness is a bit confusing unless specific examples can be given as to what you mean.
In general I find it easy to forgive people with good intentions that are very incapable and make lots of mistakes. Children at a toddlers age, without proper supervision, could make lots of big mistakes without bad intentions but I'd find it easier to forgive them in most situations I can think of than someone who has bad intentions.
I don't even know if it's considered a mistake for a person with bad intentions to do something bad, since by definition they are intending to do bad things. For example if a person who intends to molest a child makes a mistake in what he is doing it means he will fail to molest that child, I have less respect for a child molester who successfully molests a child than I do for a person who tries to save the life of a person who wasn't even dying and ends up killing someone.
There's probably some scenario where my feelings might be different to the situation but I don't know. Obviously people with very good intentions can make catastrophic fuck ups, but instinctively I feel I still have more respect for people with good intentions.
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