Looking at your responses, one thing that comes to mind is that good intentions are not enough--actions matter, because what affects people is what we do, not (or not only) whether we meant well.
Knowing that your parents meant well may help you not want to take revenge, but it doesn't eliminate the harm they did.
(This is prompted in part by a discussion in matociquala's journal of Orson Scott Card's fiction and the morality implicit therein, which in turn comes partly from an article by John Kessel.)
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Date: 2005-05-21 01:40 am (UTC)Knowing that your parents meant well may help you not want to take revenge, but it doesn't eliminate the harm they did.
(This is prompted in part by a discussion in