If you’re rooting around for a good read, check out this essay on forgiveness from the latest issue of In Character.
See especially the bits about the infinite extensibility of guilt and how that rather paradoxically encourages the cult of victimhood. Excerpts are unavailable, but a crude summation is:
The suffering of others around the globe is brought before our eyes on a daily basis. No matter how much we try to alleviate that suffering, we will always fall short. Our moral responsibility to alleviate suffering and our failure to do so brings about a deep sense of guilt. Because victims are thought of as morally blameless, achieving the status of victim or proclaiming oneself to be a champion of the victimized, however defined, is a means of shifting the burden of that pervasive guilt off our own shoulders. We wish to be morally innocent, and the surest way to stake a claim to moral innocence is to assert that you have been wronged, or are speaking out on behalf of others who have been wronged.

Sounds at least plausible, doesn’t it?