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I've come to see that people are far more complex than what you may think, and that complexity arises from a process of self discovery.

To address your point, the cheating could have arisen from emotional issues that hadn't been consciously acknowledged and couldn't be addressed until after the cheating occurred. If that person goes through therapy and deals with their dysfunction I'd suggest it was a transformative process and you're not dealing with the same person who cheated.

To what degree should you make someone pay for something they didn't do to you?

Haven't you made mistakes and learnt from them and grown as a human?

All I'm suggesting is to be very cautious about passing character judgement on others based on old data. You may be fine with the false positives but it's a lagging indicator at best.



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