Commentary Forgiveness is in the gift of the wronged, but pardon is in the gift of us all. What we consider pardonable and unpardonable reveals our scale of values. Two recent cases from the world of sport demonstrate, however, that making relative moral judgments can be complex. In the first case, a football coach, Jon Gruden, pre-emptively resigned after e-mails, supposedly private but written on a company e-mail account, that contained racial and other slurs, were made public—or made almost public, since most of the slurs have been described in the press euphemistically rather than reproduced verbatim. In the second case, the executive of a sports equipment company, Larry Miller, has revealed that, aged 16, he committed murder. This was unknown throughout most of his career, during which he reached the top of the tree. Whereas Gruden has been widely, almost unanimously, condemned, Miller has drawn almost equally widespread praise. …