To be honest with you, I am kind of skeptical about practicing empathy toward the person who was deeply unfair to me. Here is what I mean: If I see his emotional struggles, his confusion, and his pain, I may begin to say to myself, “Oh well, under this circumstance, I can let the circumstance go and just forget about it.” Empathy, in other words, lets the other person off the hook. What do you think?
When we forgive, we start with this assumption: What the other person did to me was unfair, is unfair, and always will be unfair. Our forgiveness of the other does not excuse what was done. We can be kinder to the person even though the actions were unjust and will remain so. This makes forgiveness a very special moral virtue because we are doing our best to be good to those who are not good to us.
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