Apology: Sign of weakness or sign of strength?

x( Damn pride!

by far

to get through all these copycats....wtf?

*runs*

It means that I have learned something..

that determines strength or weakness.

the person to whom you gave the apology. That's something even adults do.

Usually, it is just a matter of good manners. Apologizing because one has been brow-beaten or guilt-tripped into falsely accepting blame is a sign of an unwillingness to be assertive. Sometimes one has to stick to his guns and that does not make him ungrateful or disloyal, Mom! :-(

it seems like today that anytime anyone says or does something that even slightly offends somebody there is always a gnashing of the teeth in demanding an apology - and while i personally will apologize for something if i feel genuine regret or sorriness because of it. but say i believe i'm on the right side of an argument/issue/whatever and i don't truly feel the need to apologize i won't, because it wouldn't be sincere and i'm not one for doing something just for the sake of doing it (or saying something that i don't really mean)

"...will apologize for something if i feel genuine regret or sorriness..."

If you feel you are wrong, not if the facts make know you are wrong. I don't mean to be critical as it is pretty common to express things that way. I just find it odd that the language assumes that human action is motivated by emotional reaction rather than rational decision. I was talking to a judge that I talk to in my job. I told him I was defending his decision and he said he would be "upset" if I did not. He did not say I would be in error or in violation of a duty I owed or just wrong on the facts, but that he would be subjectively upset. Strikes me as being odd.

mikey_the_rat

mikey_the_rat

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Sign of weaselness if you just use it to get out of trouble.