"Thinking that someone deserves to suffer is not a right view of any kind at all. The whole purpose of the teaching is that people are suffering but they don’t have to suffer. In other words, the Buddha’s saying they don’t deserve to suffer. Even though they’ve done bad in the past, that doesn’t mean that they deserve to suffer. Even if you’ve done bad things in the past, you don’t deserve to suffer. Everybody can change their ways.
This is one of the basic propositions that the Buddha worked on. If people couldn’t change their ways, he said there would be no need to teach them, no reason to teach them. But people can. They can learn to be more skillful, drop unskillful things." ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Goodwill as Restraint"
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