I can see Negan being redeemed ..
....looks like his relationship with Judith is gonna sort of redeem him. Enough to where he will be an integral part of the show for awhile.
shareI'm of the belief that anybody can be redeemed regardless of their past.
shareI'm a big believer in redemption..It's one of my favorite themes.
But in the real world a person like Negan wouldn't be redeemable because it wouldn't be something he would aspire to.
Child molesters are beyond redemption in my book !
share...and Sadists and psychopaths and serial killers.
shareDon't forget carnies!
shareNah, none of them are beyond forgiveness and even they can change.
shareSo someone kidnaps your child and rapes and kills them...
.. And enjoys it... Laughs about it.
Some people are born without basic human qualities and nothing can restore what was never there to begin with.
Sure, you can forgive them. But they don't care and they don't want to change..
Your idealism is pretty but not enough pretty enough for some of the ugliness in this world.
Well yeah, I mean they can be forgiven if they actually wish to change. You aren't the same person you were a year ago physically or psychologically. Nobody is. The "you" that you think you are, is an illusion, a set of memories, experiences, learned behaviors. Your personality is just a story that you tell yourself. You choose who you want to be every moment. The worst, most sadistic person on Earth today, could become the most peaceful and enlightened person tomorrow if they chose to do so. If you murdered a changed man for things he did in the past, you're murdering an innocent man, because he literally isn't the same person that committed the misdeeds.
For me, all that matters is that Negan stops doing bad shit and starts doing good shit. His past is irrelevant to me.
To answer your hypothetical question about my child, I'd murder a man to stop him from hurting my child, but I would not murder a man years later as revenge for hurting my child. There's a massive difference there.