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While forgiving is good and well, someone who chooses a side completely along friendship lines in a civility dispute and then attempts to redefine language and policy to suit their friend is engaged in a battleground behavior. Forgivists take great care to ignore and forget huge infractions by their friends while meticulously picking out the most minor or even non-existent issues of others in a dispute. They are incapable of being objective or rational. Forgivists can exists on either or both sides of a dispute despite whether it involves administrators, editors, or anonymous IPs.