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Why personal healing choices feel like political statements

I forgave my rapist through restorative justice but my family says I betrayed all his other victims by not sending him to prison.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual paths to recovery become public judgments about how society should handle collective harm.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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