#right vs wrong

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

It’s an open secret that while everybody says they want to live in a democracy, most people don’t.  When you get down to it, what they really want is to live in a place where their party has total control; they like the idea of democracy, but they want their voice and their opinions to be the only ones that matter.  It stems from the very nature of subjective morality; what I mean is everybody thinks that they are in the right, that allowing an opponent to have power would be a moral failing, something they could never forgive themselves for allowing.  Now, it’s one thing to be steadfast in your beliefs, everyone has that right, but while a lot of issues do indeed have some gray area, many of them are clearly black and white.  A lot of issues have definitive right and wrong positions, and the reason our political system is so fucked up is because half the country has taken the objectively wrong side on those pertinent issues.  They refuse to concede that they could ever be wrong on any subject, so they double down on EVERY subject.  When one side says they want to hurt people who are different than they are, that’s bad.  That’s wrong.  There’s no room for debate on this, it doesn’t matter that they think they’re morally right, they’re clearly not.  They never stop to think about the implications of their beliefs, they just parrot everything they’ve been taught because they do not personally suffer from it.

People are discussing a lot about how acceptable apologizes should really be like, which is GREAT. But may I add: giving an explanation and giving an excuse is NOT the same thing. If someone is apologizing to me, I wanna know what their mindset used to be and what their mindset is now so that I can see change.