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The paired human action that repairs broken promises and mistakes, completing the social world that promises begin.
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forgive each other
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...two things that truly human to make promises and to forgive each other for breaking promises or for making mistakes okay so this is..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...two things that truly human to make promises and to forgive each other for breaking promises or for making mistakes okay so this is..."
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"...two things that truly human to make promises and to forgive each other for breaking promises or for making mistakes okay so this is..."
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"...society in which we can make promises and we can forgive each other okay all right um so making promise is a very big..."
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"...can feel pain. Because we can sin. Because we can forgive each other. But there's a problem with this framework."
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"...much. Okay? The sin is so much that we cannot forgive each other. Okay? We cannot forgive ourselves. We cannot forgive each other. And..."
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"...Priam and Achilles have this great emotional battle where they forgive each other, and Priam's love for Hector and Achilles' love for his father..."
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"...who run the world. They don't feel regret. They don't forgive each other. So how do we perceive these people, okay? And there are..."
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"...way for it just prevail is if we're allowed to forgive each other and previously we don't have a tool to forgive each other..."
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"...And this allows Achilles to escape his guilt and they forgive each other. And in the face of Priam, Achilles sees his father. In..."
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"...does and now achilles submits to priam and the two forgive each other and weep together and this is how the"
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"...you and how do you forgive yourself for doing wrong unto others this is the hardest problem in human society if you can solve..."
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