Life is not a ledger. Your sins can't be paid off through good deeds. Your good deeds are not cancelled by your sins. Your sins and your good deeds live alongside one another. They coexist in superposition.

You (and I) can (and should) atone for our misdeeds. We can (and should) apologize for them to the people we've wronged. We should do those things, not because they will erase our misdeeds, but because the only thing worse than being really wrong is not learning to be better.

citation extraordinaire de Bernie Sanders: «Tout ce qui nous effrayait du communisme – perdre nos maisons, nos épargnes et être forcé de travailler pour un salaire minable sans avoir de pouvoir politique – s’est réalisé grâce au capitalisme.»