The Hard Case of Apology

If you're apologizing for an ill intent, then I mean the question is are you saying you were wrong to have the ill intent before? Was that a mistake? And how deep a mistake was it? Right, so the issue seems to be that you need to like be reconsidering something more fundamental in your moral stance or evaluation or strategy toward life. But still in the moment I've got to be acknowledging the very thing that I want to be forgiven for as in some sense present and in need of forgiveness. That's all the the prior for the tutorial apology really does is it kind of says hard apology is a possibility between us.