[eropple]

Mutual apologies don’t rectify one of the most influential people on earth slandering someone who is decidedly not.

[WalterBright]

The world would be a lot better off if people settled their differences with a mutual apology and handshake rather than attempting mutual destruction.

[eropple]

Sure. And it’s literally impossible to do so when one of those people is effectively beyond any consequence for anything that they do.

Peasants don’t get to shake hands with barons. Ours have a legal system to (sometimes, not always) even things out just a little, though.