Titanic

I was a rich man, first class on luxury liner the Titanic. On the early morning of April 15 the "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg head on. Everything I had ever thought in my life meant nothing now, my initial plan was to get on a lifeboat. My mind was changed when I realized that I was not a kind person as I should have been. I now know my fate is set. I assist many women and children onto a lifeboat, I stay on the Titanic. I walk past the rushing people anxious to get a lifeboat, I find my room. I know soon the ship will submerge completely into the freezing water, I wait for my death to come. I think of how the Captain is mostly to blame, but I find the heart to forgive him. I will go with a kind deed of helping the few women and children, before I was bitter and always seeking riches as the Captain. I know not to blame him or anyone else for this sinking beauty. I can not blame them for the same mistakes I have done in my youth. I die with the ship, knowing that my end was to be.

What a Picture can do.

Near the end of Wiesenthal's autobiography, The Sunflower, he talks about when he had went to the house of the mother of the dead SS Solider, Karl. While there Wiesenthal describes how he "looked at the eyes that he never seen" belonging to Karl in the photo on the wall(Wiesenthal, 86). As this obviously refers to the fact that Wiesenthal never saw Karl's eyes, it has a more in depth meaning. Karl had just got in the Hitlers Youth, and was not yet tainted by their 'brain-washing's', so Wiesenthal saw the man who was not a murderer. It was as if he saw a different man then the one who begged for his forgiveness. He saw a photo of a young man who was soon to be corrupted by the war. By seeing Karl's eyes Wiesenthal understood that he could not ruin the the image that Karl's mother has about her son by telling her about the terrible things her son had done to the hundreds of Jews in the house. Wiesenthal came more into thought about if he should have forgiven the SS Solider for the massacre of his own people.

The Boundaries of Forgiveness

"For over 20 years, a warlord kidnaps children, forcing them to be soldiers or sex slaves."

This warlord should never be forgiven for the horrific acts that he had done. He doesn't deserve the forgiveness of the people, sex slavery is against the crime of solicitation of minors. He should have been tried for this crime several years ago. His crime should have caused him to be put to death. Nobody should be forgiven for this malicious act. Forgiveness The Boundaries of Forgiveness