I have read one criticism of forgiveness that goes something like this: If people forgive, this may lower accountability. In the case of legal issues, someone who requires serious time in corrections may be let off with too light of a sentence. What do you think of this?
When you forgive, you can and should seek justice as these two moral virtues (forgiveness and justice) can occur simultaneously. Regarding the legal issue, there is an important difference between people forgiving others for offending them and legal pardon, in which the judge was not the one offended. In the event that judges are offended, they must recuse themselves from the case. In other words, forgiving for personal offenses and engaging in legal pardon toward someone who did not personally hurt the judge are quite different.
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