You wrote:
“Disagree. Stockholm syndrome. That, and the fact that Mr. Denny was brain-damaged by the attack.”
His forgiveness gives no hint that it is the result of brain damage. Pope John Paul II forgave - in person - his would be assassin and he was not brain damaged in the least in 1981. The Stockholm syndrome applies to hostages - not assault victims.
“His attack remains, like the Goldman-Simpson murder, an unjusticed travesty.”
True. And yet he forgave his attackers.
True. And yet he forgave his attackers.
I note your interesting take on the business of Rodney King, and the victim of a "payback" attack. Like so many cases, the recipient of a revenge attack is likely the LAST person deserving. Reginald Denny virtually lost all sense of HIS own dignity. This is hard for me to say.
Damian "Football" Williams, the man who kicked Denny in the head, today is serving 46 years for killing a drug dealer. Working class myself, I will never understand a man who gets a break and then blows it.