Take another case: the complicated question of charity…A sensible pagan would say that there are some people one could forgive and some one couldn’t…Christianity came in here as before. It came in startlingly with a sword, and clove one thing from another. It divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all…We must be much more angry with theft than before, and yet much kinder to thieves than before.
–G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (p. 87)
