I feel the continuation of being hostile towards him by some posters (including Shifra despite accepting the apology) after he apologized is unwarranted and furthermore, unproductive.
I went through 22 months of withdrawal from medication fairly publicly while a member of an email list. I was incapable of keeping both feet out of my mouth and it seemed to not matter how hard I tried, things just came out all wrong. I wrote many heart-felt, sincere apologies. I had no agenda in terms of my public reputation or whatever. My only intent was to take genuine responsibility for my actions in spite of the burden I was living with and to try to take away whatever hurt I had done.
The result? I became the list scapegoat and if some asshole attacked me out of the blue for no apparent reason on some flimsy excuse, the entire list went "there she goes again!" It's been, oh, maybe six or eight years since then. Some of those folks have never forgiven me. I no longer feel responsible for their on-going hostility. They have a personal issue.
I'm a lot less apologetic than I used to be. Someone once said (in essence) that real justice must mean justice for both sides.
I saw the line you edited out. I hope that means there was some minor mis-communication because as far as I can tell, we're on the same side of the fence!
No miscommunication (that I'm aware of). It just seemed extraneous -- beating a dead horse. I'm the sort of person who "would have written a shorter letter, but didn't have that much time". So, yeah, I sometimes go back and snip a little. No big.
I went through 22 months of withdrawal from medication fairly publicly while a member of an email list. I was incapable of keeping both feet out of my mouth and it seemed to not matter how hard I tried, things just came out all wrong. I wrote many heart-felt, sincere apologies. I had no agenda in terms of my public reputation or whatever. My only intent was to take genuine responsibility for my actions in spite of the burden I was living with and to try to take away whatever hurt I had done.
The result? I became the list scapegoat and if some asshole attacked me out of the blue for no apparent reason on some flimsy excuse, the entire list went "there she goes again!" It's been, oh, maybe six or eight years since then. Some of those folks have never forgiven me. I no longer feel responsible for their on-going hostility. They have a personal issue.
I'm a lot less apologetic than I used to be. Someone once said (in essence) that real justice must mean justice for both sides.