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> I don't want to live in a world where we can't be forgiven.

Forgiveness requires accountability and commitment to change, neither of which have been forthcoming.




Have you seen his blog? He's admitted failings and mistakes in the past.


I have not, and would be interested to see a link to that (the posting(s) in question, not the whole blog), particularly if it addresses the many accusations of sexual harassment, as my understanding was that this had not happened. Prompted by your comment, I had a look on his site, but nothing seemed to be fit the bill, either in the "Political Articles" section or the "Non-political Articles" section — but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places? Please, enlighten me.


Sorry I don't have time to dig through his blog right now, but on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Resignation_f...


Forgiveness technically does NOT require those things. That’s the point. It’s fore-give-ness.


But if you forget for a moment your semantic argument, you find that is actually very hard to forgive somebody that doesn't admit to have done something wrong.


Yup — that basically requires extremely high levels of compassion and unconditional love, something we can all aspire to, but in reality and in general forgiveness tends to be conditional.


That is the entire point of the Christian practice of forgiveness. It is unconditional.

It is a practice, something you do in spite of it being challenging.

The practice itself is mostly for the forgiver, not the forgiven. Try it and watch your heart soften and open.


Stallman lost his job for years, and apologised - what are you talking about?

And this is over - and I can't BELIEVE this still has to be said even here - his words being twisted COMPLETELY out of context.

Smh at this community for tolerating comments like yours.


Oh, has he apologised for the years-long pattern of sexual harassment as testified to by multiple women? I must have missed that, sorry.




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