Societal Influence on. . . . . . .All Kinds of Things. But, What About Forgiveness?
Stop smoking! The message worked at least in America as the number of people smoking and their frequency of smoking has plummeted over the past four decades ever since the Surgeon General’s warning of the harmful effects of cigarettes.
Societies can alter opinions, norms, and individual behavior.
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Insightful. Even the Athenian forum in ancient times focused on justice and not on the triumvirate of mercy, forgiveness, and justice.
What an interesting social experiment that would be for a society to deliberately build in the encouragement to forgive for the citizens of that community.
Societies today seem to be so pressed down to simply achieve the basics that I wonder if this is even possible. Given the choice of clean streets, utilities that work, and snow-plowing in a harsh winter, will those who govern even think about adding to the calendar something as transcendent as forgiveness?