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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Yes. I am often an apologist for incomplete but well intentioned reasoning I encounter in the wild.

I try to first understand before I criticize and that has helped me to interpret other people's words better.

An apology is not a bad thing or a good thing. It is a thing.

There are plenty of apologies that could be delivered that would meet those criteria and also be really mean things to say that do not make someone feel better.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    I think this definition of an apology is too far from common usage to be reasonably expected to be understood, and too broad to be useful in general.

    If you want to refine your definition so that it's more than just an "explanation" (already have a word for that) I could maybe get on board.

    And, to be honest, I'm a little bit worried about how one comes to equate an explanation with an apology. My gut tells me this definition creep might be a red flag of a victim of an abusive narcissist.

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