163. How to Make Wrongs Right with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
We Can Do Hard Things
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What's the Eggshell Plaintiff Doctrine?
The legal doctrine of taking your victim as you find them is fascinating. After we've accepted consequences, no matter how sensitive or fragile the other person was, then comes the apology - and it's so interesting all the way at the end. The harm doers are baffled right in the beginning because they didn't do something out of character. They did something in character. And by the time we get to the apology, we are of a different character. We look back on our previous self and can have sorrow for what we did. That means not, oh, I got caught, but I shouldn't be saying, "I'm sorry"
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