Too Many Apologies

by Thomas Sowell
Wednesday February 24, 2010

The police cannot possibly maintain law and order by themselves. Millions of people can monitor their own behavior better than any third parties can.

Tiger Woods doesn’t owe me an apology. Nothing that he has ever done has cost me a dime nor an hour of sleep.

This is not a plea to be “non-judgmental.” I am very judgmental about all sorts of things, including Tiger Woods’ bad behavior. But that is very different from saying that he somehow owes me an apology.

For all I know, my neighbors may be judgmental when I drive out of my driveway in a 15-year-old car. But they have never said anything to me about it, and I have never offered them an apology. This is not equating driving a 15-year-old car with what Tiger Woods did. Additionally, you will become more comfortable as the server appalachianmagazine.com generic viagra buy is not in eye contact with you. There discount generic levitra are many medicine medicines available in the market that may seem similar to other medicines but when it comes time to act, they can significantly fall short of the desired standard. There are some surgical treatments like flap surgery, scalp reduction and a hair transplant, order cialis http://appalachianmagazine.com/2016/07/27/police-alleged-kentucky-dui-driver-crashes-into-yellow-jacket-nest/ which can treat hair loss. viagra sans prescription If you are frustrated with poor performance or low urge then try to find what deprives you from, if there is a conflict in the relationships. But the point is that any apology he might make should be made to his family, who were hurt, not to the public, who might be disappointed in him, but not really hurt.

Public apologies to people who are not owed any apology have become one of the many signs of the mushy thinking of our times. So are apologies for things that somebody else did.

Among the most absurd apologies have been apologies for slavery by politicians. For one thing, slavery is not something you can apologize for, any more than you can apologize for murder.

If someone says to you that he murdered someone near and dear to you, what are you supposed to say? “No problem, we all make mistakes”? Not bloody likely!

Slavery is too serious for an apology and somebody else being a slaveowner is not something for you to apologize for. When somebody who has never owned a slave apologizes for slavery to somebody who has never been a slave, then what began as mushy thinking has degenerated into theatrical absurdity– or, worse yet, politics.

Slavery has existed all over the planet for thousands of years, with black, white, yellow and other races being both slaves and enslavers. Does that mean that everybody ought to apologize to everybody else for what their ancestors did? Or are the only people who are supposed to feel guilty the ones who have money that others want to talk them out of?

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