The Story of Forgiveness

I want to run an idea by you. It seems to me that if forgiveness was always in our interest, or in the interest of our groups, we wouldn't find it hard to do. If i thought were certain to forgive me no matter what i did, so long as i'm appropriately contrite afterwards, isn't that an invitation for me to take advantage of you? You are right. In mike mc cullah's area, groups try to uphold their social norms in lots of different ways and punishment is one way. So everybody observing is pretty clear on what it means to be in this group. And you know, mike mcculla's work also identifies a place for