In most cases, when you are asked for forgiveness, it is for something that is relatively small compared to what Wiesenthal had to deal with being directly affected by the Holocaust. However, what should you do if you are faced with something similar? Is it possible to forgive someone who seems to apologize just because he is on his deathbed? I would find it very difficult to put into practice what both the Dalai Lama and Kushner suggest. Even if I were in Wiesenthal's shoes and someone like Seidl had lived a long life full of regrets, I don't know if I would be able to truly forgive him for committing such atrocities. So forgiveness for me would not be possible unless they were forced to do something they were fundamentally against, which, in Seidl's case, they were not. After hearing how he committed to this endeavor with so much enthusiasm, that's where the line would be drawn. Just like Wiesenthal, I would have just left. There would be no forgiveness on my part, and certainly not
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