As my second follow-up to your idea that forgiveness is a moral virtue focused on the person who behaved badly, why would I want to do that? It only makes me feel worse when I think of him. I would prefer to forget about him.
Forgetting about him is not forgiveness. You need to make a decision about whether or not you want to actually engage in the moral virtue of forgiveness. If you do, then you will try, by your free will, to begin seeing the personhood in this person. It takes time to do that.
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