Re: So in a future distopean world
Apology should suffice. Will they start pardoning hanged slaves for running away, burnt heretics for being Protestants?
Protestants, Catholics, Waldensians, Witches, all were roasted at one time or another, depending on Monarch.
Now people are just lightly braised before a beak in court and scorched if the red-tops get incensed with unrighteous indignation and any scars for life are more often mental rather than physical - I believe Turing was chemically sterilised*. The punishments and nature of offenses people find offensive has changed, but the nature of people hasn't one iota (see also *).
* I'm sure there a plenty would suggest it for todays scapegoat deviants.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
