everyone has to cope and deal with the crap that they were dealt. When they slither their way out of it sometime in their early adult hood, they often look like they just crawled out of a sewer. (all of this is allegorical to how they might seem to others as a 'moral creature')
but 'moral creatures' say 'forgive after repentence and atonement, and time served'
and let good people, who look terrible to a lot of other, to redeem themselves in the later days.