Apologies are like McDonald's french fries...

[profundis]

...they have to be served fresh to be any good.

"Hey, sorry for that bad stuff that our ancestors did to your ancestors generations ago but we actually had nothing to do with because we weren't born yet and neither were you."

Sounds pretty pointless to me.

Comments

[mountdfw.livejournal.com]

well, if the apology comes a couple centuries late.. why does it even *require* an apology? It's not as if the wronged person(s) are still around to receive the apology.

[profundis.livejournal.com]

That's kinda the point.