In the Sunflower Symposiums each individual idea takes on a new perspective of viewpoints. With each entry you learn different things such as relgious beliefs, occurances of genocide and imprisonment in different eras in history. What makes the writers experience unique is the unwavering ethics of forgiveness. I agree with many of the authors statements of how we should not hold onto the past mentally based on the detrimental factors it imposes of the individuals who survived to tell their encounter to embrace the future. Harold Kusher implies the refusal to gives someone power over yourself is to define one's self as a victim.(186) While Jose Hobday states "No one, memory, should have power to hold us down, to deny us peace".(175)Which means that in life we all will have to overcome things that may deeply hurt us us mentally but the only way to overcome these obstacles is to learn from our experiences and forgive without holding any resentful feelings. I agree with Hans Habe when he says murder is unforgivable but the ability to forgive one for such a horrendous crime is a true act of love; but love, justice, or punishment alone cannot replace life. With all of the turmoil in the world today it is obvious we have not learned much from the previous events in history which means that we as a nation has accepted the principles of genocide as a mean to kill mercilessly for power and individual gain.