I have a friend who was knocked over in an airport staircase by some idiots who loaded a cart up with luggage and tried to take in down a stairway. She was hit by the suitcases as they fell out of the cart. The idiots never even stopped to check if she was okay. I’ll have to ask her if she is ready to forgive them - after multiple surgeries.
Forgiveness does not preclude justice. In other words, the court system should deal with the guilty.
But when you are a victim of a crime, if you walk around in resentment of the perp, he has planted that poison in your heart and being. He does not deserve that spot within the victim and resentment is not hurting the offender, it is hurting the victim. Pursuing justice and forgiving are not the same thing.
bump!