people are naturally petty. They take single incidents and claim that it represents something pervasive and universal.

Both sides of any issue should be presented, but they should be weighted accordingly. It would be instructive to teach children about holocaust denial, if only to show how flimsy and absurd it is. By putting them in an information blackout, when they eventually and inevitably discover the restricted information, it will have greater credibility by virtue of it being previously supressed instead of diffused.

In the long term, building walls is not a solution. They have all eventually crumbled, and they always will. Of course, in the long term, we will all be dead, so it might not be a good idea to be against all walls at all times.

Forgiveness is necessary, but forgiveness of a great enough crime is a crime in of itself.