Sorry For What?

Carl Trueman:

So the Tiger finally breaks his silence, and it's a truly great shame.   Out of control he may have been, but that he has now publicly apologised "to each and every one" of us "simply and directly" for his "selfish and irresponsible behaviour" is rather sad.  He betrayed his wife and children; but what has he done to the rest of us that requires apology?  Nada, nowt, rien de rien. He never owed the public anything more than a good round of golf (yes, I despise golf as an old man's walk with a bag of sticks, but if you are in to that sort of thing....).    I had actually found his silence strangely admirable, sending a signal to a voyeuristic public, which increasingly regards privacy as a crime, that he didn't care to play by the rules of the nosey and intrusively self-important Facebook generation, and that his family life was nobody's business but his and his wife's.  I had thought his refusal to apologise to those he had not offended or hurt (how could he? he didn't even know most of the 'us' ,to whom he has apologised, in any meaningful way!) as preserving the value of that necessary apology which he needed to  make in private to his wife and family.  As one of his girlfriends might well be thinking to herself, I guess he's just like all the others.....