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In reply to the discussion: Is it possible to get redemption after committing a heinous crime...? [View all]haele
(12,640 posts)seek redemption.
In reality, redemption is something that the perpetrator seeks by his or her own actions, it is not something that society or victims of the criminal can give.
The surviving Tsarniev might be forgiven by some for being brainwashed or just being just young, stupid, aimless, and latching onto a radical philosophy when he was looking for something meaningful in his life - but that doesn't give him redemption.
Only his actions from now on for the rest of his life could give him redemption - his ability to atone for and go past what he had done in his pride and stupidity to try to make some good.
If he can't do that, then he is just like most other criminal - spending most of his life trying to take the easy way out of paying for mistakes he made.
Haele