A public apology and accounting of crimes committed by participants in collective wrongs may be too abstract and psychologically distant from particular victims to achieve what genuine interpersonal forgiveness seems to require.
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the mid 1990s is probably the best known example of such attempts to achieve reconciliation between perpetrators and victims of intra-national collective wrongs.
A collective desire "to prove everybody wrong," Battier said, is the Rockets' rallying cry and their identity.
It remains a question whether a country that, through legislation, makes a collective statement that abortion is wrong is more moral than a country willing to pay for social and economic policies that allow more individuals to make life-affirming decisions and avoid abortion.
There's nothing wrong with a collective affiliation that represents the sum of individuals' feeling.
We, the people, in the minutiae of our most private interests, want then, as a collective of those interests, things to be collectively wrong, somehow.
Right now, what is needed is nothing short of a collective wisdom to correct the wrongs of centuries of foreign meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign lands, combat social and political marginalisation, and build a fair world for all.
"It is a collective punishment against riders, which is wrong, and it is a punishment of riders who had nothing to do with the Astana team last year".
How did it come to pass that suburban men woke up on the wrong side of a collective Calamity Jane fantasy?
