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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8921713" data-attributes="member: 19857">How do you &quot;forgive&quot; a company? It feels like the framing here is wrong.I could potentially forgive the people who made the decisions that blew everything up if they were asking me for it. But they aren't and they won't. I don't even know who those people are, and it's not like they've committed to not make another terrible decision to blow everything up again, which I consider an important element of who I forgive and who I don't personally.I have a transactional relationship with Hasbro the company not a personal one. They make things, I buy things. There are lots of reasons I might choose to not buy things from them, and in the past month they created a new one and then walked it back. So I'll continue to buy things from them if they make things I want to buy up until they make another boneheaded decision that makes me feel that I need to stop buying from them. But I wouldn't call that &quot;forgiveness&quot; - that's just commerce.Forgiving a company for making a terrible decision feels a bit like forgiving a bear that messed up my campsite. I mean I guess I could do it but the bear doesn't care and will do it again if they can get away with it. The only one who might get something out of the act of forgiveness here is me, and that is probably wrapped up more in how an individual processes anger than anything else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8921713, member: 19857"] How do you "forgive" a company? It feels like the framing here is wrong. I could potentially forgive the people who made the decisions that blew everything up if they were asking me for it. But they aren't and they won't. I don't even know who those people are, and it's not like they've committed to not make another terrible decision to blow everything up again, which I consider an important element of who I forgive and who I don't personally. I have a transactional relationship with Hasbro the company not a personal one. They make things, I buy things. There are lots of reasons I might choose to not buy things from them, and in the past month they created a new one and then walked it back. So I'll continue to buy things from them if they make things I want to buy up until they make another boneheaded decision that makes me feel that I need to stop buying from them. But I wouldn't call that "forgiveness" - that's just commerce. Forgiving a company for making a terrible decision feels a bit like forgiving a bear that messed up my campsite. I mean I guess I could do it but the bear doesn't care and will do it again if they can get away with it. The only one who might get something out of the act of forgiveness here is me, and that is probably wrapped up more in how an individual processes anger than anything else. [/QUOTE]

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