I’ll forgive anyone for almost anything if I get a heartfelt mea culpa — an apology with no strings attached — but, unfortunately, that’s hard to find these days. Our culture is inundated with victims who like to scapegoat:
* “It wasn’t because of the steroids I was injecting — it must have been my trainer’s fault.”
* “We didn’t misjudge the severity of the recession — it was those greedy Wall Street financiers who made it this bad.”
* “It wasn’t because we ignored the safety warnings for years — it was a natural disaster.”
* “It wasn’t that I have been stealing my country’s natural resources for years and stuffing the money into my Swiss bank account — it was Twitter that caused my people to revolt.”
* “It wasn’t the third line of coke that I snorted — it was that my parents didn’t pay enough attention to me as a child.”
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Author: John Warrillow
