diddelysquat: So I guess the next time a person whose religious beliefs dictate that abortion is wrong is offended by my assertion that abortion should be legal, I will make sure to apologise for voicing my belief in the right to have an abortion, and not merely for having caused them offence. “I am sorry for what I said” and “I am sorry if anyone was offended by my words” are of course not the same thing, but let’s not imply - as the car crash analogy does by equating the latter phrase to something patently absurd - that they aren’t equally valid responses. I think you’re misreading the post? The example up there is about someone apologizing after doing something that causes harm. Which isn’t the same thing as having a conversation where that kind of harm-doing event hasn’t happened. So your example probably has nothing to do with the kind of apology mentioned above. Just saying.
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diddelysquat:

So I guess the next time a person whose religious beliefs dictate that abortion is wrong is offended by my assertion that abortion should be legal, I will make sure to apologise for voicing my belief in the right to have an abortion, and not merely for having caused them offence.

“I am sorry for what I said” and “I am sorry if anyone was offended by my words” are of course not the same thing, but let’s not imply - as the car crash analogy does by equating the latter phrase to something patently absurd - that they aren’t equally valid responses.

I think you’re misreading the post? The example up there is about someone apologizing after doing something that causes harm. Which isn’t the same thing as having a conversation where that kind of harm-doing event hasn’t happened. So your example probably has nothing to do with the kind of apology mentioned above. Just saying.

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