Posted by Farkel [Keflar] on November 08, 1999 at 22:34:15 {Nq8EnQ8RVAjc7.1TE24IvhKqcjatLo}:
In Reply to: Greg posted an "apologia" posted by Rick on November 08, 1999 at 21:33:02:
:I'm really getting tired seeing people harass other visitors in trying to bully someone into apologizing for something, when that person didn't believe they committed a wrong!
I'll read the rest of your post tomorrow and possibly comment on it. I was stopped COLD by the first part, and Will comment on that.
Are you saying that if someone didn't believe they committed a wrong, then they shouldn't have to apologize, even if others are "bullying" them to do it?
That is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard!
Dwight D. Eisenhower to Adolph Hitler: APOLOGIZE for killing 50,000,000 people.
Adolph to Ike: I don't believe I did anything wrong, so what you say doesn't count.
This analogy is off-the-wall of course, but it serves to illustrate that it doesn't matter SQUAT whether the person who is under-the-gun BELIEVES what he did was wrong or not. The facts rule, and if that person's accusers present facts that that person did, indeed commit a wrong, then the accussed personal opinions are just that, and they don't matter in face of the evidence.
Greg merely needs to say, "I'm sorry. I screwed up. I'm human. I'm arrogant." To do less would allow people to form less of an opinion of him that he would like us to have.
Farkel, who still hopes Greg has some humility in him