Enduring Legacies and Obligation

"In recent weeks, President Pinera has said that while the military has been assigned all blame for the dictatorship, there are still civilians who benefited from the regime but who have never taken responsibility. In the end, he said, the country needs both justice and forgiveness."

I disagree because maybe they benefited but that may not mean that they did anything to help or harm the people who did not benefit and they also did not help or harm the dictator just by getting benefits from him. The call for justice connects to the call of forgiveness because people want justice before they can forgive, for instance if someone killed your friend you would want revenge and then eventually you might forgive him after learning what happened. Chile's citizen's UoO has their revenge and wanting justice while leaving the people, who may be innocent but they will never know, out of the UoO. I say this because they want justice from the torturers and the military but what they do not see is that the people who may have benefited might not have done anything and therefore they fall out of their UoO because as long as they get revenge, I feel that the people do not care what happens to the other people. (it makes them as bad as Pinochet.)

UoO: Universe of Obligation