"A con artist swindles elderly people out of their life savings." In the examination of the crime, we have someone who has preyed on the weak for undisclosed reasons -- the possibilties ranging from greed to a desperation to provide for one's children (a motivation is not given).
The con artist is not entitled to forgiveness; he does not deserve it. No one is automatically deserving of their victim's forgiveness. Forgiveness can only be given by the victim (also, someone can still be punished, even if they are forgiven). The elderly person(s) harmed by the crime would be doing a good thing in granting forgiveness, but the con artist is not entitled to that forgiveness (and he/she would still most likely be punished by the justice system).
These two questions-forgiven by who? and what was their situation? was what made this assignment so hard. You could have answered from societies point of view, the laws point of view, the victims point of view, or your point of view. Also, there's no way to know what the situation of the person was. If this information was given it would have been much easier to decide if the person deserved forgiveness or not. This being said, I agree with you.
ReplyDeletehe does not deserve forgiveness right off the bat but I do think that if he honestly and truly wanted for forgiveness then he should be forgiven but if he just wanted forgiveness to ease his mind and to let him self think that he has does nothing wrong ,if that is the case then he deserves nothing at all, other wise I think he should be forgiven
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