Olive Branch

I wrote to someone this week: "People are fallible, so one needs to understand that and offer them grace and a way to mend things." Not to do so, I think, is not to take people's nature into account. At the same time, in my experience, most people don't want the olive branch. OBSERVATION: I had been revisiting Kant for my Society project (here abridged): “Act only according to that which could be a universal law". Yet one needs to ask what Kant did with compassion. The Bible says: "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you" (New American Standard Bible) -- which seems a lot more human than the philosopher.