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A to Z Quick Tok 49 | Do you believe in the importance of second chances?
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Quick takeaways
- Second chances provide an opportunity for growth and improvement.
- In certain cases, such as serious crimes, second chances may not be appropriate.
Deep dives
The Importance of Second Chances
The podcast episode explores the concept of second chances and the belief in their importance. May, Layla, and Hendrik all agree that second chances are generally deserved, as they provide an opportunity for growth and improvement. May emphasizes that everyone makes mistakes and deserves the chance to become better, while Layla acknowledges that there are certain situations, such as serious crimes, where second chances may not be appropriate. Hendrik also believes in giving people a second chance, but agrees that there are cases where the severity of the mistake may prevent forgiveness.
Limits to Second Chances
The podcast also discusses the limits to giving second chances. In cases involving serious betrayal or harm to others, such as cheating in relationships or selling drugs, forgiveness and second chances may not be possible or appropriate. Layla and Hendrik both agree that lying, especially about significant matters, undermines trust and makes it difficult to forgive and give a second chance. The speakers emphasize that the willingness to give a second chance depends on the specific situation and the extent of the mistake or betrayal.
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack is joined by May, Layla, and Hendrick as they discuss the following question:
Do you believe in the importance of second chances?
Transcript:
00:00:00
You're listening to the A-Z English podcast.
00:00:12
Jack
Welcome to the.
00:00:13
Jack
A-Z English podcast My name is Jack and.
00:00:15
Jack
I am.
00:00:17
Jack
The host of the podcast social is not with me right now, but I am lucky enough to have my friends, may Leila and.
00:00:24
Jack
Hendrick guest hosting?
00:00:26
Jack
Today and to me actually brought this question to me and I thought it was such a good question that we had to do an episode about this question. And the question is, do you believe in the importance of second chances? So do you believe?
00:00:46
Jack
In the importance of second chances and I think while since May is the one who brought this to me, I'm gonna let you take the first crack at it here. May what do you think?
00:01:01
Jack
Do you believe in the importance of second chances?
00:01:05
May
I I would say yes, everyone should be given second chance.
00:01:11
May
A second chance.
00:01:14
May
This is.
00:01:21
May
We will speak our life.
00:01:25
May
Second chances is actually to give an opportunity for us to.
00:01:32
May
Become better and.
00:01:35
May
I mean improve.
00:01:38
May
So that they don't repeat the course mistake again.
00:01:41
May
And then.
00:01:45
May
Another thing I would like to say is the first time we we don't lose.
00:01:51
May
They didn't manage to achieve.
00:01:55
May
OK.
00:01:56
May
Maybe we can.
00:01:59
May
Wait. Second at at the second time. So for that reason, I believe everyone should be given second chance.
00:02:07
May
Maybe first, maybe during the first time we we you know we we don't have the idea of of what it is about.
00:02:15
May
So unless if.
00:02:17
May
Unless it is, if the case is the serious matter, so that is, there will be another subject so. But other than that I think.
00:02:29
May
Everyone should be given a second chance.
00:02:32
Jack
OK, OK.
00:02:33
Jack
All right. There we go. So you think everyone should be given a second chance? And Leila, what do you think about this one?
00:02:38
Layla
Yeah, you're right.
00:02:41
Layla
Yeah, in my opinion, I believe, uh, we have to to have another chance or maybe second chance. But as you know, there are some cases that already we couldn't be have a second chance.
00:03:01
Layla
We only have one chance. We couldn't take advantage of that chance and do our best. Absolutely. We will end with the very bad results. So in general, we should have a second chance, for example.
00:03:20
Layla
And I made mistake my teachers, my dad should forgive me about that. When I did it for the first time. But there there are another case.
00:03:33
Layla
We couldn't. I don't know how to to explain that, but sometimes in your job you couldn't have another chance.
00:03:44
Layla
So there are some specific situation maybe I could have mentioned them or I couldn't remember them at this moment, but as I mentioned in general.
00:03:54
Layla
We should have.
00:03:56
Jack
Yeah, I think what you mean is like, for example, if an employee steals something from, like, a steals a computer from the company, there's no second chance the company will fire you and you're finished, right? There's so some things are too.
00:04:11
Jack
They're too bad, or there's they're too big a mistake and there is no second chance.
00:04:15
발표자
Yeah. So.
00:04:18
Jack
But but generally speaking, you believe people deserve a second chance if they make a mistake.
00:04:25
Layla
Yes, yes, I believe in that. Exactly as you mentioned that, Jack.
00:04:30
Jack
Yeah. OK, I got you. I think you I think may was saying the same thing. I think you guys are in agreement. Let's jump to Hendrick. Kendrick, what do you think? Do you believe that or do you think that people deserve a second chance?
00:04:44
Hendrick
Yeah. So for me, I also believe that it's better to give like a second chance for people. Yeah. And, you know, like, yeah, a lot of people, I mean, like, people, they are making mistakes and.
00:05:02
Hendrick
Sometimes we we have to give like the second change for the people, so maybe maybe we just give their, you know, the chance, the change for them to learn from their mistake before and then they can, you know, like prove it in the second place.
00:05:19
Jack
OK. Yeah, yeah. I mean, are there some cases where people don't deserve a second chance?
00:05:27
Hendrick
Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, sometimes. Like, if it like a big mistake, you know, like for example like.
00:05:36
Hendrick
Something that the case is really huge, like you explained, four person like this people that they steal something from the audience.
00:05:45
Hendrick
Or something like that.
00:05:47
Hendrick
Like this would be killed and yeah.
00:05:50
Hendrick
We we just give the second chance for, you know, like people or that make like the small mistake.
00:05:58
Jack
Yeah. Right. Right. We're so there's different degrees of mistakes. So like, like crimes, we would say probably no. You don't deserve a second chance. If you commit a crime, you have to in English, we say if you commit a crime, you have to do the time.
00:06:16
Jack
Do the crime. You do the time. You know you have to go to jail or whatever. May I have one more? I'm gonna jump around one more time in a.
00:06:26
Jack
Michael here and I have a question for May. May is there anything that like just from like a friend's like a relationship with a friend is there, is there anything that your friend can do to make you not give them a second chance?
00:06:43
May
When it comes to a situation.
00:06:46
May
Where a person for instance.
00:06:50
May
It was sent to. They're sending graphs pointed so that is too critical for us to give.
00:06:57
May
A second chance.
00:06:58
May
Maybe they hit someone on the road and family members die or injured so that one, I think for two seconds.
00:07:09
May
No second chance should be able.
00:07:11
Jack
OK. And when there's like, if somebody gets hurt or somebody gets killed or someone is selling drugs or committing really bad crimes, then you you've you're not in favor of a second chance. You think that's the one, one chance. OK.
00:07:25
May
There's no reason to give them a second chance for these cases involve human life.
00:07:29
Jack
OK, OK.
00:07:36
Jack
Right.
00:07:36
May
So we should be give them a second.
00:07:40
Jack
OK, when it when?
00:07:41
Jack
It involves the the health of a human life. Yes. OK. You say no. No. Second chance. Leila, what about you? Do you believe there are some situations where no second chance?
00:07:52
Jack
Like like what about?
00:07:53
Jack
Like in your relationships with your friends. Like if your friend lies to you, is that something you can forgive and give a second chance, or is that?
00:08:00
Jack
Like the end of the relationship, how? How, how?
00:08:06
Jack
Would you deal with that?
00:08:09
Layla
In some cases, for example, when they cheated me or lay at me about a very serious issue or matter. In that case, I think it's really hard to give them a second chance. So so just simple issues.
00:08:29
Layla
Or maybe normal problems? Yeah, absolutely we have.
00:08:33
Layla
To give them second chance.
00:08:35
Layla
But in a very, very sad.
00:08:37
Layla
This, for example one for my friend just cheated me on my boyfriend on reading my husband. I think it's really hard to forgive her or.
00:08:51
Layla
Give her a second chance.
00:08:53
Jack
Right. OK. So in the in the?
00:08:57
Jack
In the event of a very serious betrayal against you know, your friend betraying you very seriously, then it's very hard to give a second chance. In that case, I think a second chance.
00:09:10
Jack
Is not possible, yeah.
00:09:13
Jack
All right, Hendrick, what do you think?
00:09:14
Jack
About this situation.
00:09:15
Jack
When with like talking about friendships, my friend lies to you about a serious thing. Not just like, did you eat my cookie? No, I didn't. But they did eat my cookie. That's OK. That's a small lie. Right? But what about a serious lie?
00:09:31
Hendrick
Yeah, exactly. So for me to be honest, I don't really like people who like to lie. So yeah, I think if someone lies to me, I think I won't forgive.
00:09:45
Hendrick
This person, or maybe it's hard for me to give them to give this person like the second chance.
00:09:52
Jack
OK, alright. Well, I think I'm exact. My answer is exactly the same as your answers. I think it's case by case right? So in some situations I'm willing to give people a second chance if they really feel sorry about their mistake and they know what they did wrong and how they.
00:10:11
Jack
Maybe hurt me.
00:10:12
Jack
Or offended me in some way, they have to correct that mistake. However, in some situations the mistake is so large and so, so bad that I cannot forgive or forget that and I cannot give them a second chance because I feel like.
00:10:33
Jack
If I give them a second chance, they will do the same thing again and again and again and again. And so only one chance for those big situations. Important, serious situations. And if you break the.
00:10:49
Jack
Break the promise or break the trust. Then I can't give you a second chance, but thank you so much guys for helping me with this episode. This is a great one mate. Thank you so much for bringing this one and.
00:11:02
Jack
All right. And to our listeners out there. Well, let us know what you think. I mean, what do you do you believe in the importance of second chances and how how far will you go to forgive someone who does something bad to you and send us an e-mail at 8's englishpodcast@gmail.com?
00:11:23
Jack
Or leave a comment on.
00:11:24
Jack
Our website A-Z englishpodcast.com.
00:11:28
Jack
And we will see you next time. Thanks everybody. Bye bye.
00:11:32
Hendrick
Bye bye.
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