(October 27, 2011 at 10:38 am)Rhythm Wrote: How much work do you figure it would take to make up for raping and murdering a child. Is there a quota or number you'd care to toss out? What kind of work? Do they get paid for this, or is the joy of our presence being regranted pay enough?
You cannot 'repay' the life of a child, nor can you be 'forgiven' for raping someone. But killing someone does not necessarily make you an unrespectable person, nor does it make you any less valuable a member of society. Just as raping someone does not make you automatically incapable of future 'good' acts.
You don't 'make up for' such things. You can't. But you can do other things to show a society you're a valuable/respectable member who does wonderful things for the community. Many of our 'heros' (example comes to mind: Ghandi, beat his wife) have committed evils in the past.
Only the people/society you've wronged can decide what it takes for you to stand as decent in their eyes. Everyone makes their own choices. And only the people/society you are trying to enter can decide what it takes for you to enter. Your questions answerable on anything but a case by case basis... and frankly: there is no other way I'd have it
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
