Guter yid – I really wasn’t talking about whether or not DF WILL do tshuva or what it would take. I was asking how we respond as ehrlicher yidden to a person who DID deserve hate but then did tshuva. I think big deals response shows that we would have trouble just forgetting and trusting, I am sure I would, and I wonder what Hashem would want of us in that situation. Just a question I thought of in connection to this discussion.
Health – you are right, but I think it would be very hard for most people to switch gears.
Just to step back a second, it seems to me that there are people here who are being perceived as defending a Rosha, and denying the truth of the mitzvah to hate a Rosha. I don’t get the impression we are denying that it would be our obligation to hate, some of us are just less confident in declaring who fits the bill. I, for one, am questioning how you can KNOW someone is a Rosha and qualifies to be hated based on reading news stories and NOT based on having asked a shaila. I don’t think anyone here has said not to hate a Rasha. And listing her stupidities won’t do it for me, I would need halachik ‘clearance’ to hate anyone. Until then, I just pity her and her trail of damage.