Forgiving vs Forgetting vs Remembering
I consider the three to be the Bermuda Triangle in the North Atlantic where many ships and aircraft superstitiously met their doom. Are forgetting and/or remembering livable substitutes for forgiving? Forgetting puts the bad past behind us, no longer allowing the latter to bedevil us. But to forget history is to risk repeating it. Perhaps remembering and leaving it at that is the most viable alternative for the social psychological condition of humanity.
In Closing
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Notes
1. Minnow, M. Martha Minow On Forgiveness In The Criminal Justice System. Berkman-Klein Center, Oct 3, 2019
2. Josephson, M. Teaching Ethical Decision-Making, and Principled Reasoning. Ethics: Easier Said than Done, 1988, 1, 27-33.
3. Brumback, G.B. Achilles Heel of Public Enemy No. 1. Appendix B. War and Peace, pp. 101-116. KDP, Columbia S.C. 2021.
4. Einstein, A. Source unknown.
5. Wilson, S.B. Remembering All the Deaths from All of Our Wars. Counterpunch, May 27, 2016.
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