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Re: Where is Our Social Conscience?
by Schizo on Jan 01, 2003 - 12:14 PM
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If it was the fault of the girls, then an apology is not needed, because an apology implies guilt. You said the President did express his condolences. In my mind, that is what was needed - to convey sorrow without accepting guilt. It seems that, in the eyes many South Koreans, the soldiers were guilty whether or not it was their fault. Saying someone is guilty just because they are an American soldier is the same as saying someone is guilty because they are Hispanic, or an African American. On a smaller scale, what if a child from a minority family was involved in an accident that hurt a white child, but it was the white child's fault. Would it be the responsibility of the minority parents to smooth it over and apologize? Just because the white family had a grudge against minorities?
If the courts had indeed found negligence, then an apology would be needed. Definitely. I have no problems with that. But no apology is needed to assuage prejudice.
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