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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

TIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.

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TIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago
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    I had the opposite TIL when I learned other cultures only apologize for wrong doings and not as a sign of sympathy.

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
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      XKCD 945

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        I’m on the other side of the fence for this one.

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        I’ll give you something to be sorry about vibes. I’ll give you something for me to be sorry about?

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    Prior to this law, millions of people were arrested at funerals.

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      Police have to pick between arresting the doctor or people paying their last visit. It’s horrible.

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    Interesting that it doesn’t apply to criminal cases, just civil ones, and in PEI, only to civil healthcare or defamation cases, nothing else.

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      Fuck the police

  • Cyclist@lemmy.world
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    Sorry.

  • lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works
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    The fact that this was necessary is so stupid

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      Law is like that.

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    Can I invoke this during family arguments over the holidays?

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      Legally you’re allowed to use “I’m sorry you feel that way”

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    why would it be; it just means “i feel bad”. which you could say for things you did but also it should be allowed to feel bad for things you didn’t cause yourself.

    “we had to evacuate because of the wildfire”

    “oh, I’m sorry”

    “I knew it you son of a bitch”

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      Every single time I tell my bf I’m sorry about something bad that happened to him, his response is, “Why? You didn’t do it.”

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        I wonder if there’s a chance he’s trying to console you. like there’s nothing you could’ve done and it wasn’t your fault so you might as well not worry about it kinda way.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
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    “I’m so sorry for your loss”

    “Murderer!!!”

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