One of the reasons why we as a culture regard apologies as a sign of weakness is because that's how they're taught to us: not as acts of genuine remorse but of submission to someone else. "Tell that man you're sorry right now!"
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It's hard to get kids to grasp empathy. It's difficult to make them aware of other people's feelings. It's so much easier for the sake of polite society to force them to mouth the words of apology, which we trade as a kind of social currency. It's not about healing anything.
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Even now as an adult, when you know you should apologize you also know you'll be regarded as weak, as the one who "lost." It instills in us a fear of humiliation and a need to protect ourselves. It's a nasty piece of psychic damage we carry all our lives.
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