Demanding apologies is STUPID STUPID STUPID.
An exerpt from a great article:
Simply demanding apologies left, right and centre is not only pompous, it is pointless. Apologies, to me, are very personal things that happen between individuals; to be meaningful they must surely be instinctive, heartfelt and – above all – voluntary. Not forced out of people by public demand. If someone is ‘big enough’ to take responsibility and apologise with real sincerity, we tend to respect them. If they fail to apologise for something that they, personally, have done wrong, we tend to think less of them. That’s it. They either do it or they don’t. End of story. It may well be the case that our collective sense of honour and responsibility has evaporated away in the last 50 years or so, but attempting to force parroted apologies from people who aren’t truly disposed to utter them is simply a waste of time.
