The Paradox of Judgment
Listen, the differential between judging society in general and an individual is kind of ambiguous. Some people are going to say stuff about a general social group that ticks off individuals personally because they are part of a group, and they may feel inclined to declare in response that they aren't like that because they truly aren't. Then sometimes someone will say something about an individual in the nicest way possible, and then conclude that the entire group is like that which could be upsetting in different ways. The point is that these kinds of verbal exchanges can get a bit bloody in the worst situations. Tolerate it.
Better to let words get bloody than have to settle things with physical violence. An apology can heal the wounds caused by words, but not those caused by guns and knives. That's why, in my opinion, I believe communist nations should protect free speech and information just as much as the USA is supposed to. It reduces threats of public violence, because tensions are relieved with heated exchanges of words and with greater efficiency the more good information there is available. If that cannot happen among the public, then the likelihood increases that people may "snap" under the strain of not being able to express their suffering adequately, and then they end up doing mass violence while in a broken mental state, which is a temporary and serious condition.
There is a line in this situation of passing judgment that designates when something is “too far”. I don't know how to define it now, other than this: if someone crosses that line in the future, it will be pointed out that what they are saying is worse than what I am. Their words hit meaner, are too insulting, are too cruel, or are simply wrong because of how hurtful it is without truth. Listen to them when they say that and to what they are responding to as though this situation with me were happening all over again. Which you better pray to the gods and all that you believe holy that this does not happen again.
I have been exceptionally harsh with people, and I see no reason why others should ever need to be more severe than I am when in my most wrathful wordsmack form. If that happens, demand an apology. It shouldn't matter who you are, or who you are demanding one from, nor how you relate socially. You should always be able to have words with anyone when necessary and appropriate. An insult that demands an apology is always appropriate.
The simplest reason demanding an apology is of the utmost importance: an apology boils down to life or death. The longer explanation is that for the same reason that the tyrants refuse to apologize, they should apologize. If they don’t, they are risking what they are so irrationally afraid of losing. You can apologize fine and not lose that. You can be totally in the wrong making a huge mistake like a total fool of devastating apocalyptic proportions, and not lose that if you are not too proud to say sorry.
So, if someone demands an apology or a word in the kind of way I am that demands the national government and the entire public’s attention, that means it is at least as serious of a life or death situation whether you recognize it or not. There is nothing to lose by granting a speedway to pride rock for them to say what is on their mind. If they don’t have anything to say, they will look silly, big deal, but that kind of diversion is the kind of thing the government needs to allow, even when you get a practical joker up there who farts on stage and nothing more. The costs are negligible, and the benefits are infinite.
In those situations, the people concerned should approach it carefully, with a sense of fear, awareness, and caution of what they are not seeing coming out from their blind spot and shanking them in the kidney with a rusty shiv from Hell. That kind of approach costs a person nothing, and ensures that they do not lose their head. It is foolish to dismiss apologizing as an option because of pride, otherwise known as arrogance.
Do they think anyone believes they are infallible and cannot ever sin or make a mistake!? The very thought brings the wrath of the public upon them, saying nothing about divine wrath which is also awoken. Every person should know better than to believe themselves infallible. Even the pope. If the pope was infallible, Christianity wouldn’t have such a horrific history. That teaching is more of a bureaucratic thing to maintain order in the structural organization, in my opinion, because I don’t believe the pope is a divine person who cannot make mistakes and never sin.
He can represent that authority and speak with it, but that doesn’t make him any more or less human than anyone else. Besides, addressing situations that demand an apology shouldn't take more than a few minutes for most things, and be an infrequent necessity. For whatever chagrin a person may feel at saying sorry, the relief of forgiveness after is infinitely better than the slow poison of a begrudging guilt.
Consider the lesson of Jesus Crist’s life, death, and resurrection. Jesus died because people believed his sin was unforgivable. He died for a sin that he was accused of which the people who made the accusation believed was unforgivable. It is they who needed his forgiveness because they had no right to judge him for that sin without committing it themselves by judging guilt as the authority of the species (ideological species, not biological – like a living idea with a mind and will of its own). Jews are humans, not divine beings, so they cannot be an authority of the species because they themselves are not of the species. ***They had no right to say that Jesus was not “God”, because if he was, they wouldn’t know it and they claimed that they did in fact know it.*** Jews are not divine beings any more than anyone else is, that being just a mote which grants us free will and the divine power to create good with free will.
Refusing to forgive someone’s sin is the worst thing I think a person could do as an offense against the highest divine (otherwise known as “God”). Forgiveness doesn’t exonerate them from crimes or reparation, because there are other reasons why laws need to be enforced other than guilt and atonement. However, it does change the way a person thinks about the person they forgave, and that is a big deal for both the victim and the offender. So, having died, his resurrection (at the very least in memory through these very words which call to mind the living, real person he is then and now), … his resurrection testifies that no person is beyond forgiveness. That means that everybody is subject to mercy and by association, wrath, of a higher power no matter the height at which they may recline.
Consider this: Even if Jesus had committed the sin he was accused of, and he didn’t, he should have been forgiven and dealt with mercifully, not the way it happened. In other words, even if Jesus was God and Man in the way he was accused of claiming to be, and then offended God in such a way as a Man would by actually committing the sin he was accused of, he would forgive himself as both a Man and God. If I could forgive him for that, he sure as hell can too if he wants. Being able to forgive as a Man, means that the God self is also capable of forgiveness, because the power and authority of Man is not beyond that of the highest divine.
Furthermore, when the Jews accused Jesus of the sin he was sentenced to death for, Jesus completed the sin himself by accepting the punishment for it. He would not have accepted that punishment if he did not commit the sin, because even accepting punishment for such a sin commits that sin. It’s a horribly evil situation and why it is said he died for evil. It was a lost cause not worth dying for that he totally believed in with true faith because he was a bastard child who had nothing to believe about himself but the story of his national identity which he totally integrated into his person because it was intertwined with traditional sacred claims of several thousand years. Traditional sacred claims are personally powerful in ways that a legal claim in court is not, nor are new sacred claims nearly as powerful as traditionally established ones.
(My personal sacred claim to derive who I am from is none of your concern, but if you want to know more about who I am and see if learning about me can help you, I would appreciate a little more respect and kindness from you. Cease doing the evil that you have been doing to attempt to get to know me. Things like stealing information in gluttonous amounts, invading my privacy, stalking me, and knowingly violating my human rights continually. I will believe what I want about myself, and you will not have any control over that, and I will hold you accountable to the law for doing me harm so egregiously for so long. Go to hell with your evil thoughts as false gods, because you are not welcome around me with those.
None of you people can claim responsibility for who I am as a creator, because that is me alone, and I created who I am myself. I had nothing sacred I could identify with that completed the logical link between mortal man and the highest divine source which Christianity promises me is true. It cannot be Jesus Christ because he is a Jew and I thankfully have nothing to do with Jews and no relation to them, nor do I want a connection with those… people. Christianity is beneath me. It is not good enough for me, especially with people like that traitorous president claiming to be one.
Under no circumstances do I want to identify in the slightest with people like that. Being a man myself, and knowing my quality as a man in relation to other men, I don’t want to have any connection to such pitiable excuses for men. They are disgraceful and an embarrassment to all that can see them as they truly are. I have more self-respect and dignity of a higher nature than they reach themselves, far more, so how can I be like them if they are beneath me in the hierarchy of men? They are surely like me, not the other way around, but unfortunately for them, they are not even recognizable because of how far they have strayed from the source at which I found myself and the Christ true.)
So, everyone should be willing to apologize if they do something wrong, or "sin" in some way. Nobody does wrong like that on purpose anyway (not true sin) which is why apologies are necessary when the situation is made clear as to how they went wrong and who it hurt.
The thing about words, is that anyone with communication skills can rearrange words to heal and do any sort of magic goodness in people's lives that rebounds them from the worst situations. Even though you may think in the moment that you'd rather be shot in the chest than insulted in such a way, it's not so bad because you just need a skilled wordmage to say the right thing to make it better. People with those talents, skills, and abilities that are not all that uncommon. You probably know one who could help you sort out any sort of situation with a good talk.
Whether or not you believe this, I can do that for the entire nation, for the treasonous presidents, for the shameful congress’, and anyone for that matter. If I say the word, I could pull the entire god damn catastrophe of the USA’s failed government out of the fire, and save it from the eternal destruction they are condemned now to suffer because of their bad decisions upon bad decisions all because they are trying (and failing miserably), to hide their crimes and sins. Obviously they would need to repent with a contrite heart, but that is both the easiest and only way out of their problem, so it should be the obvious choice. They seriously think apologizing in public is going to be worse than the punishment of cold, hard justice which will bring about what they fear anyway?
There is no blaze of glory for them to be destroyed in such a way as refusing to do any good whatsoever, because their crime is ideologically evil, unintelligent, meaningless, disgraceful, and does not look remotely cool in any way. Did they not know that Jesus already died for sin? He already died for evil. It changed nothing and only made the situation worse, and they are supposed to have learned from that like everyone else.
They don’t even have a nation or idea they are trying to keep alive, because they betrayed their national sacred ideology openly to not die for it! Cowards in every sense of the word. Afraid of punishment, afraid to fight for the ideals they swore an oath to protect, and afraid of that one man, who is particularly unfortunate in life and disabled too. That actually makes him look incredibly bad ass for cowing them to such humiliation just by taking a stand. I’d better go help him, because if I’m not fighting with him when he wins, which we all know is going to happen, then… let’s not even go there. “Yo! Daisy! I got your back! Don’t give up the fight!”
There is no question about whether or not they need to admit their mistakes and submit themselves to justice. It is necessary for the simple reason of correcting the damage which continually hiding their crimes and sins only makes worse. If they don't, the ship will still be flooding, the fire will still be burning out of control, and the breathable atmosphere will continue to deplete until it is entirely gone. As far as confronting me the way they need to, they don't have to like me, honor me, praise me, say nice things to me, or anything, but they do have to present themselves in my presence because what they did affected me personally as an individual worse than anyone (as far as I know), and I am the higher authority they answer to as the citizen.