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Why are some people seemingly incapable of apologising? Sometimes it's a celebrity or a traitor, but more often it's somebody in your life. These people will often offer a non-apology such as 'Well, I'm sorry that you feel that way.' Well, according to the philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy, it's because an apology humbles the ego. Murphy argues that every wrong carries a message that 'I matter more than you', and so we want an apology so the wrongdoer can acknowledge our own hurt, but also acknowledge that we matter as well. It's a desire to be seen. And so a good or a real apology has to do three things. First, it admits blame. It says that 'I am the reason for your pain or your inconvenience or whatever'. Second, it says that 'this is not who I want to be. I want to be a kinder, better version of myself than this action implies'. And third, the hardest for a lot of people, is that it is an act of voluntary humiliation. And so the reason that apologies are so hard is because by saying 'I messed up, I got it wrong', the offender has to voluntarily step down from their self-assumed pedestal. They admit that they are imperfect, and they are error-prone, but they also have to subject themselves to the judgement of another. An apology is a humbling of the ego that begs for forgiveness. And so when somebody doesn't apologise, it's often not because they don't know what they have done, it's because they are unwilling to submit themselves to another. It's because they cannot bear to step down from their pedestal, and when they say 'I'm sorry you see it that way', it's a way of staying on their pedestal while sounding as if they are trying to make amends.
Why are some people seemingly incapable of apologising? Sometimes it's a celebrity or a traitor, but more often it's somebody in your life. These people will often offer a non-apology such as 'Well, I'm sorry that you feel that way.' Well, according to the philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy, it's because an apology humbles the ego. Murphy argues that every wrong carries a message that 'I matter more than you', and so we want an apology so the wrongdoer can acknowledge our own hurt, but also acknowledge that we matter as well. It's a desire to be seen. And so a good or a real apology has to do three things. First, it admits blame. It says that 'I am the reason for your pain or your inconvenience or whatever'. Second, it says that 'this is not who I want to be. I want to be a kinder, better version of myself than this action implies'. And third, the hardest for a lot of people, is that it is an act of voluntary humiliation. And so the reason that apologies are so hard is because by saying 'I messed up, I got it wrong', the offender has to voluntarily step down from their self-assumed pedestal. They admit that they are imperfect, and they are error-prone, but they also have to subject themselves to the judgement of another. An apology is a humbling of the ego that begs for forgiveness. And so when somebody doesn't apologise, it's often not because they don't know what they have done, it's because they are unwilling to submit themselves to another. It's because they cannot bear to step down from their pedestal, and when they say 'I'm sorry you see it that way', it's a way of staying on their pedestal while sounding as if they are trying to make amends.

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