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John A's avatar

No, we aren't forgiving and we aren't forgetting until those who created this avoidable tragedy are held to accountability. There were ample people arguing against these measures at the time - the Great Barrington Declaration is a prime example - and they were ridiculed, censored, ostracized, and in some cases fired from their jobs.

No, to avoid this ever happening again, the perpetrators of this catastrophe must be held accountable. Americans are a good and just people and forgiveness is a part of our national character, but there must justice for those damaged by the past 3 years, chief among them our young people.

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You know what has to precede forgiveness? A sincere apology.

And we're not going to get there when articles like this attack right-leaning media for not accepting an apology on behalf of half the population written by one person who wasn't even directly responsible, and in apologizing is already facing criticism from people who haven't broken away from the indoctrination (as noted right above the attack on right-leaning media personality).

I'm loathe to bring up the topic of WW2 Germany, since it's such a cop-out and overused comparison, but before we could even begin to forgive Germany and Japan, we had public trials of all of the people responsible at the top, in which many were sentenced to *death* for the atrocities they had committed.

Now I'm not saying that death is the appropriate judgement, but heads do need to roll to show sincerity that something like this can never happen again.

We can't just forgive the entirety of the Nazis because one foot soldier says "I was just following orders"

Again, forgiveness will eventually come, but the first step is for a sincere apology that includes accountability.

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