Originally Posted by
NichG
Yeah, I think I'd be in that last group. The only things I can imagine that would be unforgivable are things which are actively, willfully ongoing. It's too easy for me to imagine someone doing something, however horrible, then having their mind be effectively completely rewritten (instantly, through 1000 years of atonement, whatever), and then being asked to believe that even despite that, I should hold that previous act undertaken by a radically different persona against the new persona - just because it happens to be inhabiting the same flesh/mind/soul/whatever as the old one.
On the other hand, if you change the persona like that, and the new one refuses to stop doing the continuing horrible thing, that takes it into a realm where I can start to imagine 'unforgivable' . And even then, for me it'd need to be something purely willful, where the person could actually do differently without any real consequence but still chooses to do the horrible thing. OOC at least (I'm not a paladin after all) I'm willing to at least entertain the argument that there are situations in which something horrible happens to a few people but a much larger number of people are prevented from coming to harm by it.
So what I'm looking for if I'm going to judge someone 'unforgivable' is a willful, continuing set of acts of horribleness that could be avoided but where the person is choosing to do so anyhow.