Sinful Believers Wearing Their Sins

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My next question is - if you stumbled and asserted your correction, and this behavior was taught to you, were you truly forgiven or did that person or people have a no choice but to forgive you (rendering their forgiveness useless and insincere)?

Forgiveness, like apologizing is a choice. Each bear their respective consequences. They are not compulsory, but may be beneficial on an individual or group basis. I leave little room for altruism being anything more than a cause-and-effect theory in action.