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Old 02-16-2008, 01:36 PM
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Default Not necessarily, Blade
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Originally Posted by Blade View Post
Taking responsibility for what you haven't done is an indication of mental illness.
Taking responsibility for something you didn't do could mean that, but it could also mean that someone is just being silly in their pathetic attempt to make things right.

It could also be a gesture of reaching out to someone that acknowledges a wrong and wants to make some kind of effort to make it right.

It could even be a simple act of kindness and empathy.

Apologizing for having benefitted from someone else's wrongdoings, is a legitimate reason for an apology that has nothing to do with mental illness. And lastly, there can be no reconciliation without truth.

If I don't believe that blacks were mistreated in the U.S. EVER... then, I don't really understand true history and cannot be an instrument of reconciliation between the races.

To offer reparations is tantamount to cheapening the apologetic gesture, IMO. It reminds me of the man who beats his wife, then apologizes for it and hands her a fifty so she can go buy herself something nice.
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