9.19.06. 9am.
i rant again.
so a headline in this morning's chronicle read "the question is now: did the pope apologize enough?" for those who don't know, or for me when i read this again in two years, the pope said something last week about how muslims are evil and terrible and responsible for everything bad in the world (i paraphrase, of course).
is it me, or is "adequate apology" not the question at all? adequate apology is always treated like the question in these kinds of situations, when to me, the question is "does the pope still believe what he believed when he said that?" and the answer is, of course he does. you don't change what you believe just because someone caught you owning up to it. he's apologizing because people were offended, not because he's seen the error of his ways. it's the same with schwarzenegger saying latinos are "hot-tempered," it's the same with, god every time anyone apologizes for anything.
why do people think apology make it better? to me, saying sorry changes nothing. being sorry is what counts. i see preschoolers who push another child and are made to say sorry; it changes nothing, because they're not sorry!
the question of "did he apologize enough?" strikes me as profoundly silly.
okay, end of rant.