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South Yorkshire Police and Hillsborough and admitting you're wrong..

  • 16-09-2012 9:33pm
    #1
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭


    After this whole Hillsborough thing finally came to light, I read that the South Yorkshire Police tested the blood of a dead 10 year-old boy for alcohol and also checked to see if other dead had criminal records. What kind of mind would contemplate this?

    But my question is very simple.....why don't those who screamed loudest that Hillsborough fans or Bloody Sunday dead or anyone else who has been lambasted and proven otherwise, why don't any of these people come out and say "I was wrong, and I'm sorry."?
    I have absolutely no problem admitting that I'm wrong. Why do people who roar on the side of something which later becomes debunked just clam up and fcuk off and be silent? Why don't they come out and say "I got it totally wrong lads"?


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  • #2
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Many people don't like to show an apparent weakness by admitting they were wrong.

    That's all there is to it really.


  • #3
    WumBuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭WumBuster


    because they are cops who think they are invincible and above the law. It was easier to blame a few drunken fans for their cock up than to admit they were wrong. It was also a different social climate back in the 80's with Thatcherism rife, tbh England in the 80's looked a bleak, nasty place


  • #4
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Because if your wrong a lot and admitting it eventually you'll have to admit to yourself your thick as shít. Nobody wants that.


  • #5
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    asherbassad wrote: »

    But my question is very simple.....why don't those who screamed loudest that Hillsborough fans or Bloody Sunday dead or anyone else who has been lambasted and proven otherwise, why don't any of these people come out and say "I was wrong, and I'm sorry."?
    I have absolutely no problem admitting that I'm wrong. Why do people who roar on the side of something which later becomes debunked just clam up and fcuk off and be silent? Why don't they come out and say "I got it totally wrong lads"?

    Because that's actually rarer than you think. Fair play to you -- that's a lovely quality to have and I hope you always keep it-- but far too may people, IMO and IME, see apologising as a sign of weakness or just can't bring themselves to do it.


  • #6
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I always admit if I'm wrong in my personal and professional life. Then again I never caused the death of 96 people.

    Doesn't matter how the knowledge was arrived at: now just make them pay.


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