Re:How Atlanta Is Turning Ex-Cons into Urban Farmers
by PavlovsCat on Saturday December 08, 2018 @04:52AM
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> The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.
-- Hannah Arendt
You weren't punished forever. Forgiveness existed.
You weren't in debt forever. There was an end in sight.
Look up "Jubilee".
IF ONLY we had that today.
I think the only thing coming close to this concept has to do with your credit history, and things falling off after 7 years.