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Originally Posted by Zee
To give you an exaggerated (but very real) example:
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were once at war with each other. Both men presided over a brutal war that saw millions of their own citizens die, and under their rule, mass genocides were committed, territory not belonging to them was invaded and captured and both irreparably damaged their countries' reputations forever. Stalin was on the side of the Allies, against Hitler, but once Hitler was taken care of, Stalin then became an opponent to the Allies and that tension later turned into the Cold War and still exists today; meanwhile Hitler's Nazi Germany was split into East and West, eventually reunified and Germany fully integrated into Western society and values and is a core part of that power base.
Now tell me, how can you possibly make a clear cut "___ is right and ___ is wrong" in that example? Life is not "one or the other", things change over time and I'm of the view that while Linda has every right to hate Jim for what he did to her life historically speaking and she has every right to maintain that hatred in the modern day she cannot expect people to apply her historical experience to what we're seeing in the modern day. Jim might have been the lowest kind of arsehole scum in the past but it is Linda who is making herself look bad now in the present day and time, not Jim. Does getting bullied and then going on to bully someone else make you look good, feel better or change how you felt when you were getting bullied? No. It doesn't. Linda needs to let go of her anger. Jim clearly has. You might think this is a ridiculous post but I've tried to reasonably explain why Jim has so much support to so many of you who have repeated these same points and nobody appears to want to listen.
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Jim hasn't 'let go' of anything.. that analogy was too bizarre zee
She may have a deep seated dislike of jim, but he's not that hot on her either...
It's ruining the experience for both of them, it only really flares when they've had a bevvy, maybe hitler and stalin should try staying sober?