The Unfortunate, Near-Universal Futility Of Mercy

Mercy cannot make anyone turn towards truth either through the act itself or its psychological effect on the recipient or observers.  This the fact that it by nature cannot be morally obligatory, only good but optional at best, and the fact that almost no one actually chooses to turn towards reason and morality because of mercy make it an objective waste of time in almost every single case.  Anyone who gravitates towards actively, repeatedly showing mercy to others, as I have moreso in recent times, cannot be rational without realizing this.

Morally, mercy is nothing but optional.  Pragmatically, it is doomed to utter failure or triviality in almost all cases.  Even as someone who--so far--has been far more merciful since earlier in this year, I know that there is ultimately no real point to being merciful other than sheer preference, and almost no one truly benefits from it on either end.  Mercy making an impact is an almost universal futility, a fool's hope that some cling to out of sheer emotionalistic desire to receive mercy themselves if or when they were to need it.

When non-rationalists are already in greater sin against the nature of reality just by existing without being rationalists than a rationalist would be to literally murder them, and eagerly, mercy is wasted on anything but an authentic attempt to allow them to change for the better--knowing that it will almost certainly absolutely never turn out this way.  To hope for mercy from God, if the uncaused cause is the Christian deity, is one thing; those who sincerely seek this mercy receive it in some form.  To broadly expect mercy to make any sort of philosophical impact on one's fellow humans is lunacy.

Yes, since most people are always more likely to be irrationalists who only believe or pursue things for emotional appeal, pragmatic convenience, or assumptions, it is always thus more likely that the masses will never care for mercy beyond what they think will serve them selfishly.  They want exemption from true justice because they do not like the idea of deserving anything close to the second death of the Bible (Matthew 10:28) or even the first death of the Torah's capital punishment, which murder is sometimes at worst but a somewhat immoral distortion of to begin with.  Mercy is wasted on them.  However, strict pragmatism is not why a rational person would want to be merciful anyway.