Comments on: Retaliatory apologies https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-2418 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:31:25 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-2418 In reply to Matt Rose.

A truly Canadian film.

]]> By: Matt Rose https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-2417 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:21:41 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-2417 In reply to sumac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPI0aicf4bU

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-2013 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:50:21 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-2013 In reply to Donna Farley.

That’s great! Thank you for pointing that out — and sorry for my cultural narrowness.

]]> By: Donna Farley https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-2012 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:27:00 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-2012 Have you seen this cartoon? Saying ‘sorry’, reflexively, to the person who committed the offence, is a normal part of Canadian culture! 🙂

http://completelyseriouscomics.com/?p=269

]]> By: Kris Naelapää https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-1981 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:34:39 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-1981 In reply to gjk.

His responses are induced by the deep ,inner urban rage that afflicts all if us.

Just differently. In cars, in parking lots,
shopping malls.
Hopefully, not in a chronic, behavioral pattern. Because it enrages all bystanders and the Accused.
Probably does not create happy rehabilitation on part of the guilty party.

]]> By: Sumac https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-1947 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:07:23 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-1947 I say you’re a dreamer. But perhaps not the only one.

]]> By: smc https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-1946 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:38:50 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-1946 Who knows maybe the person who did take obvious not, and others who said nothing but did think about it, made a net increase in apologies later that exceeded the number of Alford retaliatory apologies, for a net improvement in the world’s apologetic quotient?

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-1939 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:15:19 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-1939 That’s so interesting. I guess there are lots of Alford-plea situations. I looked at the Wikipedia entry on the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_v._Alford
It’s the classic “He said he was gonna kill the guy, he went out with a gun, he came back and said he’d killed the guy, and the guy’s dead, so we figure he killed the guy” setup. Then Alford says he didn’t do it after all, but he wants to plead guilty to second-degree murder to avoid the death penalty.

Take it to the Supreme Court!

]]> By: gjk https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-1934 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:02:26 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-1934 That’s not an accurate description of all Alford pleas, though. What about a person who is accused of causing a bad traffic accident but has retrograde amnesia? The evidence is pretty much open-and-shut, but the person has absolutely no recollection of driving the vehicle. Before Alford v. North Carolina, that person would have been forced to plead “not guilty” because he or she could not honestly admit the elements of the offense. Now that person can acknowledge that the state has the evidence to convict and avoid the necessity of trial without falsely confessing guilt.

]]> By: Anita https://sorrywatch.com/retaliatory-apologies/#comment-1908 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:25:40 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=949#comment-1908 My grandmother would be appalled!

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