Titanic

The Titanic's officers were blamed for failure to notify passengers of danger, to load lifeboats to capacity, and to maintain discipline. If I had been a passenger on the Titanic, I don't think it would be possible for me to forgive the Titanic's officers. And If I did, my forgiveness would be limited. I may have survived, but many others would have died, including members of my family. If the officers would have notified the passengers of the danger, it would have been less chaotic, and there probably would have been more time to load the lifeboats; the lifeboats could have been loaded to capacity and many people could have been saved.

Pity

     "He sought my pity, but had he any right to pity? Did a man of his kind deserve anybody's pity?"
      I don't believe that this man deserves pity because he is a murderer. The book says "When we were told that everything was ready, we went back a few yards, and then received the command to remove safety pins from hand grenades and throw them through the windows of the house." Although he wasn't the one who gave the command to throw hand grenades into the house full of Jews, he is just as guilty because he followed the order, killing innocent people. The book also says "'Look,' he said, 'those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as I do-though they were not as guilty as I am.'" The dying SS man claims that the Jews he killed died quickly, but did he really know that? How could he? He didn't have any right to say that they did not suffer, especially when he doesn't know whether or not that was true. Just because he is dying and wants to confess everything he's done, doesn't mean that he deserves forgiveness; he made the choice to murder those innocent people.