The Importance of Honesty in Law

The usual social norm or law perspective is the idea that if there are certain things people do and they do wrong, then we need to see a history whereby they lose something. Right. But I think that perspective on it is really not compatible with seeing the apology as sincere. The idea is like, look, they need to see me as losing something like maybe as losing faced by means of the apology. Because otherwise if this doesn't satisfy them, then they need to do something worse to me that's very visible so that I seem to have been punished. So for example, in law, I think judges often want to see contrition and admission of guilt on the part of the convicted.