It's insanely difficult not to offend someone in this day in age. The introduction of the Internet has given us faster and broader ways to communicate with each other. This has led to the common realization that basically everyone (largely including myself) is opinionated, idiotic and an awful person. People don't realize that it's okay for someone to have a different opinion and all try to force their social fascism upon one another, usually by summoning up their courage behind the cowardly keyboard. Our social fascist tendencies beg other people to assimilate or die. When people do acquiesce to accommodate to their newly adopted norm, they are berated and stupidly asked to apologize for why they didn't comply earlier. I don't give in to that crap because I'm not sorry, nor will I ever be.

I personally despise liars and I refuse to be one. Did I tell lies growing up to get me out of trouble? Of course I did, but since I'm legally a man, I shouldn't have to anymore. I don't understand how someone can ask me to lie to their face and live with it. I'm baffled every time. It takes away from who I am as a person and creates a fake perception of who I am. I only want to hear the truth, not something that is going to momentarily satisfy me. What happens when you later find out that the person is not sorry and goes back to doing whatever they did to piss me off in the first place? You find out that they're not sorry and that it was you that made them lie to you. In essence, you're just lying to yourself and setting yourself up to piss yourself off again. It's a vicious cycle and it's your own fault.

I never apologize for someone else being stupid. It's not my fault you have the comprehension of a third grader and you allow your emotions to dictate what you understand. That's your fault and you need to be held accountable for it, not me. If you continue to allow your emotions to control your decisions over logic and reason, you're going to have one hard life. Knowledge is powerful and a burden, but I'd rather carry those burdens than be a simpleton that has the intellectual value of a carrot.

Apologies lose their meanings after a while. If something is habitually happening and all you're asking for is an apology, that's all you're going to get. The person perpetually stepping over the boundaries will eventually realize that you only require an apology and will go on with their lives. Is that person genuinely sorry? If the person keeps doing it then the answer is hell no. There are better courses of action in dealing with this than asking for someone to say "sorry." One way is reasoning with the person and explaining to them in simple terms that what they're doing is not okay. You could also do my favorite thing: ignore it. It's really not that hard to not get offended over something. Get some thicker skin and realize that words don't actually hurt and move on with your sad life. Or you could simply rid yourself of that persona and never have to deal with them again. The choice is yours.

I am accountable for all my actions. To me that is more meaningful than an apology because it's a sign a bravery. At least have the guts to own up to it. Once you do something you can't undo it. Life isn't a computer program that allows you to abolish those certain things. Even then you still made that typo at some point in time, it just may be that you're the only one that saw it. If you do something that offends someone, because you will, explain yourself rather than apologize for something you don't feel bad about. Tell them you're not upset in offending them, it's not your fault someone can't take a joke or just takes you way too seriously and has to cry about it. You're stupid for doing whatever was offensive and they're just as big of an idiot as you for letting it get to them.

The Internet sucks. Sure, it's given me this internship and makes my homework a billion times easier, but it's helped us come to the realization that humanity blows. Time after time again I'm asked to apologize for things I don't feel bad about. It takes away from myself as an honorable person because I'm being forced to lie. Screw that, and screw your feelings that I don't care about. You probably don't care about mine so I'm not going to waste my time caring about yours. You can call me a spoiled brat, but the thing is that I'm not going to get upset about it and I'm sure not going to say that I'm sorry for being myself. Get on with your life, stop being petty and quit making me feel the need to act petty. No one is entitled to anything in life and it's about time we collectively get our stuff together and start acting like it. I will never feel sorry about being honest, neither should you.