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        <title>QotD: It&#39;s Too Late to Apologize</title>   
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        <blockquote><p>Has anyone ever done something so horrible to you that &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot; couldn&#39;t fix it? </p></blockquote><p>
&quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot; never fixes it; &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot; is a weasel&#39;s attempt to get out of responsibility by placing guilt on the one who was injured.</p><p>What does fix a transgression? Take a lesson from the <a href="http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Faith/may-june99/Atonement.html">Catholics</a> - add works to atone for the sin [1], not just words. And go forth and sin no more. </p><p>So when you&#39;ve done something horrible to someone, don&#39;t say &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot;. Apologize by fixing the window that you broke, or telling folks that you were the one in the wrong, or by doing something else that corrects the mistake that <strong>you</strong> made. And then you can say &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot; and the person will know that you mean it.</p><p>Until then, &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot; is like the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2IvET4lAj4kC&amp;pg=PA460&amp;lpg=PA460&amp;dq=weeds+deeds+words+franklin&amp;source=web&amp;ots=654sV1Db3V&amp;sig=ORj1EV7xioNf2W-YQAwClQI0hXw&amp;hl=en">garden</a> that Ben Franklin&#160; described.</p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">John</span></strong></p><p>[1] That&#39;s what these are - social sins. And &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot; is an attempt to magically use <a href="http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2007/07/patter.html">patter</a> to atone.<br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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