The Importance Of Forgiving People

Forgiving people is a significant action that everyone does for their mistakes, but should it really be a responsibility to forgive people? For instance, people can use the Holocaust as an example because it was the mass slaughter of European civilians done by the Nazis, and lots of peoples family members had died there. If people were apart of the Holocaust would they want to be one to forgive someone else who was a worker there? Well, in ‘’It’s For You to Know That You Forgive’’ , Holocaust survivor Eva Kor talks about how she went through four decades before she could forgive her tormentors. Also in The Sunflower, Exploring Dimensions of Forgiveness, a jew named Simon Wiesenthal tells how there was a Nazi soldier who needed him to forgive …show more content…
As for Simon Wiesenthal who never really made a decision to forgive someone, suffered in the long run wondering his whole life whether he should have forgave the guy who was dying. If he would have forgiven him then he wouldn’t have had to carry the weight on his shoulders for so many years wondering if he made the right choice. Although Simon thought he shouldn’t have forgiven the Nazi soldier at the time, maybe he just needed more time. For example in The Sunflower Exploring Dimensions of Forgiveness , Simon explains how, ‘’ Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of violation, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decisions.’’ However forgiveness is a big responsibility, no one can get mad if someone chooses not to forgive because like Simon Wiesenthal said only the sufferer can make those decisions. Its their own opinion debating if they made the right decision or not. In either case, forgiving is neither right or wrong at anytime, but that is for the victim to decide since they suffered through the pain of someone else's