The Worth of "Sorry".

What is with people that think everything can be fixed with "sorry"? Sorry is just a word that doesn't make things better.

New Jersey: Sorry we kept 12000 black slaves and they weren't emancipated until 1846. Well, let me give you some news: slavery hasn't been emancipated because the world is still full with people living in slavery. Even in the United States. "Emancipated" means only that the slaves you get have to be worked in the dark. So sorry means nothing. Or should Rome issue an apology for all the people enslaved during the ancient times in the Empire? I never unsterstood the point in saying "sorry" in such a late date. For instance, if I were Jew and suddenly Germany issued an apology for the holocaust, what does it mean to me? Nothing! I wasn't there, it affected, perhaps my family, but I wasn't my grandpa or my grandma, I didn't suffer, and those apologizing didn't dealt the suffering, so it's hollow. Being sorry has many shades that the sole word can't cover, and asking forgiveness, saying sorry "just because it's about time" is an insult to whatever damage, hurt have happened.

Okay, it might mean that you admit something you did was wrong... we all do. Do we need someone from Hitler's family to admit that what he did was bad? Fuck no! We all know that! Will it make the world a better place if President Bush were to admit that he planned 9-11 and that he pushed his country into a senseless war, attacking innocent people, threatening other countries' souvereignity for his own profit and a power-boost, and then he said "sorry" for that? Certainly not. After the economy was declared to be "sound", which we all knew it was not, and now slowly Bush admits that it's not "sound", does it make a difference? No. Words can be carried away by the wind. Words are empty. It's the meaning what makes the difference, the well timed meaning, the solving of the issues, not the hollow speeches.

Saying sorry when since years ago people know you did something bad, and half admitting a truth everybody knows, makes you only one thing: a fucking bullshitter.

People should consider better what they say.