Forgiveness is Overrated

<p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">'Why is it that people who worry the most about mankind have the least concern for any actual human being?'  -Ayn Rand</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">I read an excerpt from "Not With a Bang But With a Whimper" by Theodore Dalrymple.  He writes of a British man who was convicted of assaulting or raping 15 women before being released and murdering Naomi Bryant.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">The Scorpion and the Frog and is the best explanation of evil I know of.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Forgiveness is overrated.  Case in point:  An Arkansas woman forgave and even befriended her mother's killer.  He then killed her.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">“There are pleasures, no doubt, to be had in crying in the wilderness, in being a man who thinks he has seen farther and more keenly than others, but they grow fewer with time. The wilderness has lost its charms for me.” -Theodore Dalrymple</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><a href= "https://people.com/crime/ark-woman-befriended-moms-killer-out-of-spiritual-obligation-and-then-he-murdered-her/"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">https://people.com/crime/ark-woman-befriended-moms-killer-out-of-spiritual-obligation-and-then-he-murdere</span>d-her/</a></span></p>