tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-03:919620 erratio erratio 2013-09-07T21:38:51Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-03:919620:142192 2013-09-07T21:38:51Z 2013-09-07T21:38:51Z public 0 (conversation in the grad room)<br /><br />S: My wife always says "you're not *really* sorry, you're only sorry you got caught".<br /><br />Me: I think you can be genuinely sorry if you did something by accident, but not on purpose.<br /><br />E: ..or if you did something deliberate that had unforeseen consequences.<br /><br />Me: Right. But if you intended it.. by the time you've made the decision and acted on it, you're not sorry anymore.<br /><br />We missed the case where someone has to prioritise tasks such that someone is unavoidably harmed in pursuit of a more important goal. In that situation you can easily be sorry that there wasn't an otherwise-identical action that didn't cause that harm. Did we miss anything else?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=erratio&ditemid=142192" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments