““People will love people no matter what terrible shit they do. We forgive people, even when they don’t ask for forgiveness. When there is no atonement, no penance. Why do we love people? Why do we forgive evil? Stupidity— Shallowness— the darkest motives. We forgive because we are attached, we have known them a long time, we have put them into the category of family or friend. We want to have sex with them. Because they entertain us. We even forgive child molesters if they make good movies. The unspeakable truth is that we need written laws that have mystic origins— with weapons to keep them upheld. Because we are too forgiving of our friends and family. We take their side, even when we know they are wrong, and lying. The world would collapse into chaos without law not because we are savage beasts, but because we are so forgiving.””
