Truth is not the end Mercy is truthful, but the reverse is not so. But some established facts about some people are not the end. We will recognise that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
There is no instance in the New Testament of a person's being forgiven by someone lower in the power hierarchy. Only someone with greater power in the relationship could perform an act of forgiveness. There's no perfect person out there, regardless of how upstanding and morally correct they might like to think they are. People do crazy things, especially when they're emotionally deprived and have no love in their life. The Bible locates the source of evil not in passion, in the throbbing heart, but rather in hardness of heart, in callousness and insensitivity.