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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus
Failure to act by someone in leadership to correct a past wrong, is in iteself a wrong. When there's good to be done, one cannot both fail to act and be good. A lack of action is in and of itself, doing a wrong.
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Charitably mitigating the bad consequences of something done by a third party to someone, and apologizing for it when you aren't the perpetrator, are two completely different things - the former admirable, the latter lunatic.
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Additionally, the person making the apology is the only one who can judge whether or not they feel they owe the apology to someone they are trying to reach out to.
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Absolutely wrong, in the case of the Prime Minister, who was speaking
ex officio. That means he was not just implying culpability for himself (itself a nutsy idea) but all the non-ab people of Australia. Did he ask
them if they wanted him to apologize on their behalf??
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Whether or not you feel like they do is of no concern here. For example, if I want to apologize to Chesby for the way she's been treated by some of the users here it's my call. I get to tell if I think I owe it to her or not... not you.
If I decide to apologize to her on your behalf, that's another matter entirely. You get to dispute that.
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If you do, perhaps you can also get her to apologize for some of the vicious things she's said.
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I've benefitted from oppression of Native American Indians in the past because I now own the land I'm living on. You can't repay forever, but you can attempt to make past injustices right again. You can't personally fix all that was done before you came into existence, but you can seek to make some sort of ammends without meaning that you personally have done an injustice.
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Sure, you can
>>>charitably<<< help anyone you want. Or not. You don't owe anyone anything, except to the degree you personally,
you, are culpable.