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How personal healing can conflict with public safety

I forgave my childhood abuser in therapy but now he coaches little league and I feel responsible for future victims.

Juana
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The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual forgiveness and collective protection can create irreconcilable moral tensions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Justice and forgiveness — the tension?”

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