On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Stefano Mori wrote: > > > Every example I've given, people point out why it's different. > > Germany: different coz it was 50 years later.
I never addressed this one, but I'll tell you what - if a member of the ruling class of the generation during Hitler's rein offered an apology in 1945, I'd have been fairly unimpressed. > The Pope: different coz he did it to God. I never commented on this one either... I think it's admirable that the Church wants to make an effort to heal some of the deep divides its created over the centuries, and I generally take them at their word - the Church is clearly a much more liberal institution than it once was. > Wife: different coz forced to sleep on sofa. Yep, that's exactly what I said. > Japan: funny, nobody tackled that one. I'm sure they must be different > for some reason.... I didn't tackle any of them. > You can always claim it is different. But is that difference the > *real* reason why you think the apology is not OK? Are you this dense? You brought up these cases, not me. The difference has nothing to do with why I don't believe the time is right for an apology; the difference explains why your scenario is different and thus irrelevant. If you really think a hypothetical involving your wife is scalable to world politics then... wow. I've explained why I think Obama is neither ready nor obligated at this point in time to make a public apology. Asking about hypotheticals and unrelated situations is just a distraction. Just because someone else apologized does not either make it necessary, or useful, in this situation at this time. I've left it wide open for making amends in the future. Should we be asking Israel to apologize for killing innocents? Sure, it'd make us feel warm inside... and be completely beside the point, and likely unhelpful at best. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
