The first term I typed into Google was forgiveness. The types of sites that showed up were definitions, quotes, meanings and all sorts of randomness. What I found to be interesting was there were quite a few of sites that talked about what higher power thought of forgiveness. I felt like the internet was trying to persuade everyone to forgive. If Jesus, Britney Spears, and Obama all forgive, then we should too. The next word was reconciliations. Right away the first couple of cites showed definitions and randomness. ALSO I noticed there were many cites that dealt with government in anyway shape or form. Once I came to revenge, the government atmosphere disappeared. I found this to be really really interesting. This gives the message across that the government does nothing wrong and if they do, we should forgive. Forgiveness had the most results. I think this is because our world 'strives' for peace and people are willing to share good news such as forgiveness on a daily basis.
I did not realize the lack of results for revenge. I agree that forgiveness and reconciliation have more results over the internet. However, I believe there is more information about revenge as we speak with other people face-to-face. I am certain that people have their disagreements about the government. If they expose their disagreements over the internet, it is more likely filtered in order to limit the amount of activist and protestors. I believe that people want to be good, so we learn to forgive and reconcile. We learned to trust those around us and try to forgive and reconcile them.
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