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>>93152334
>What good is a message of mercy when the responsible parties don't even feel they did anything wrong?
A coin toss towards the lost finding their way, and the impressionable being guided away from losing theirs.

You could just as well mercilessly abandon all who cross you, but the our chances then are always certain. None.
The lost remain lost, the wayward observe there is no hope and stray, and followers become blind from fear.
No one would know where they're going, everyone simply reacts to those around, from or towards harm like the stampeding of beasts and swarming of insects.

But free will is a right of humans.
No individual is obligated to choose and act for the many, except, ironically, when such a false dichotomy is imposed by bystanders that individual freedom of those with or in power is indifference to the collective regardless of collective responsibility. That for "the greater good" Atlas must not shrug and Prometheus must endure the eagle.

If we're going to measure the morality of anything the neglect of millions far outweighs the neglect of one.

>>93152334
Mercy requires repentance, if they just do it again, they haven't really changed.