After reading Harry James Cargas’ reflection on Simon Wiesenthal's inability to forgive and Karl’s sins I have more insight into the reasons why Wiesenthal could not forgive him. He states that if “God chooses to forgive Karl, that's God’s affair” (125). This is completely true because it is not our place to forgive Karl. He also mentions how deathbed confessions are sometimes “too easy” (125). Before, I had not even contemplate how if Karl was truly contrite, he could have asked for forgiveness earlier in his life, he did not have to wait until he died. I do not think that his confession was ingenuine, but I do believe that he most likely expected more sympathy since he was dying. Cargas also mentions that he prays for “mercy rather than justice”
