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If nothing you do matters, if you get love no matter what, what use is that love? That love has no value since it doesn't make a difference between right and wrong. If love isn't a reward for good behavior, it looses it's value.
What if they don't take the chance to improve their ways? If you simply try to love the worst of humanity, no matter what they do, what message do you send? What message do you send to those who are doing bad deeds and get loved for it? What message do you send to those who are doing good deeds and get as much love as those who do bad? You reward bad deeds and fail to reward good deeds.
I believe diplomatic forgiveness is a great and important tool for peace and understanding, but it needs to be under the condition that those who are given a second chance agree to change their ways, else you are simply give support for bad deeds. And once in awhile, there are those who do not deserve forgiveness, because they are best served as an icon of what shall never happen again. Like the Nazi party, or Josef Stalin. But to make sure it never happens again, it's important to ask the question "why" rather than simply saying "they were evil". But loving them? That's just evil.
The final outcome is all what matters in the end. Love should be used to change people for the better. If you had a 20% chance you could change someone for the better, would you not take it?
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