What's the use of an apology(a verbal apology)?

Question

When something bad is done, it's already done and you can't turn back time to undo it. No heartfelt "sorry" can reverse the damage...

Answer 1

Dude, reversing the damage is not what an apology is about..

It's an admission that you know what you did was wrong and that you regret it - And possibly even a chance to explain why it happened...

Screwing up and not apologizing is just saying 'I don't give a rat's *** about your feelings'

S'not the way human beings should interact

Answer 2

Apology is a formal acknowledgment, as of error, offense or incivility. Saying sorry is apologizing through a verbal mode. Sorry cannot reverse the damage but the personal act of a person to be sorry for what he did is the best manifestation a person could do. True you cannot put back what happened but apology is the best civil act a person should do. In other words, the person acknowledges his own mistake or error. Besides when a person say sorry coming fron the heart, isn't it you feel better after those uttered words. Let me put it this way, your three-year old daughter break a glass and then runs after you and say: "Daddy, am really sorry.... Isn't it touching one's heart? Isn't it you feel good? Yes, those broken pieces cannot be put back but the verbal apology is the most important.

Answer 3

It may not be able to reverse the damage, but if the apology is given sincerly and accepted graciously, it is the beginning or starting to repair the damage that has been done.

This is especially true if the damage that was done was an accident.

This can be a little harder to accept if the damagethat was inflicted was intentional or maliscious.

Answer 4

if a person genuinely regret what they have done they will try to make it good in some way. this can be either in undoing (or partially undoing) the harm they have caused, or else trying to do some good to make up for the bad they have produced.

a verbal apology when the apologiser shows no practical effort to make good is just a way of setting the sucker up to be taken a second time.

Answer 5

An apology shows that the person who did something bad regrets the outcome.

Sometimes a person intends to do the bad thing but when the bad thing brings about effects that he did not expect, he regrets that

Sometimes a person does something that he is not aware is bad and thereby ends up hurting another unintentionally , therefore regrets it.

Answer 6

It is quite a simple matter.

When you wrong another human, they are likely wary of you doing it again and raise their guard against you. Apologising is a means of reassuring them that it was unintentional and that you do not intend them any further harm.

Aside from that, it has become rather ritualistic in human society to go through the act of apologising. We badgers don't tend to be so wary of those we know, even if they make the occasional mistake, so apologising isn't necessary for us.

Answer 7

An apology is sort of like social grease to reduce the friction
between people, it helps because in acknoledging fault
when you have wronged somebody helps them forgive and forget and let go of their own anger at you.

Answer 8

an apology signfies truce/forgiveness. its utility lies in the fact that it conveys to another person that you didnt meant it and it was a mistake or if you even ment it you wont do that in the future. so you try to avoid an agressive situation developing or want to win friendship, the utility for the other lies in the above two being conveyed to him so he be not in a wrong notion.

Answer 9

True enough. But an "I'm sorry" goes a long way towards making both parties feel better about it.

Doug

Answer 10

expressing remorse for something thats y we use this word
But a verbal apology can be taken in two ways, i.e.
1 a person is really feeling guilty
2 he/she is feeling pity on us
....thats what i think so.....take care