Forgiveness or at least _tolerance_ is a very important social
   tool. It allots you degrees of freedom that you might not
   otherwise have.

   It's a tricky thing when overused the wrong way though, as
   people can often see through it.. .especially if it's the kind
   of transgression people _trained_ to see abuse of
   forgiveness/tolerance... like authorities and such.

   Think about the labels we allow to be applied to ourselves.

   I accept the label of "Nerd". I'm not guilty for it, nor am I
   sorry. I accept it because of the immense degrees of freedom it
   provides me; to be an "absent-minded professor", to have
   obsessive hobbies... to be late to things... to overexplain
   something.