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The one thing you absolutely cannot alter, is the past. You are human, and humans make mistakes, they make choices they regret and they hopefully learn from them.
If you told us that a few years ago you decided you wanted to see how it felt to rape or kill someone and so you did that - I would not be suggesting you set that aside and forgive yourself. That is not an error, or a mistake, that is a conscious and deliberate act of harm. But that is not what is being described in this thread.
A young soldier, making a rapid choice when the wrong choice either way could kill an innocent, or get himself or his comrades killed? I think that young soldier deserves forgiveness. Would I think that had my loved one been killed by him? Maybe, maybe not. I'd like to think I would.
We get one go around in this life, Trace, and the world is seldom kind.
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