10/1/10

Let's talk about apologies

When I was a kid I would make mistakes. After these mistakes happened, my parents would teach me a lesson by making me apologize to whoever had been harmed by the mistake.

One time I threw a baseball through my neighbor's window and I had to go knock on the door and say that I did it and would fix it (through the financial help of my parents).

One time I hit my sister in rage (real man!) and I had to apologize to her for this.

These seemed like reasonable examples of apologies.

Here's another apology, courtesy of our "city on a hill", shining example to the rest of the world U.S. Government.

"Hey Guatemala, how you doin? I know this has taken 60 YEARS (!!!) but we'd like to apologize for infecting your jailed female sex workers with STDs for a medical study. Yeah, that was our bad."

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