Would you classify forgiveness as a skill or as a moral virtue?

There is more to forgiveness than a skill. A skill suggests expertise in action, such as shooting free throws accurately in basketball. Forgiveness is more nuanced than that. Its basic difference with a skill is this: Forgiveness is not just the execution of accuracy. Instead, it is a willed and rational focus on the good of the other. You understand this focus of goodness for others, you will it, you practice it (and here is where the idea of skill comes in), and you eventually can make it part of your identity, of who you are as a person.

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