Apologies are only meaningful if you vow to change the behaviour that made them necessary in the first place.
The academy in Stockholm (or the breakthrough video, as the case may be) makes these productions possible in commercial terms, but nothing can make them necessary.
In Detroit and cities like it, however, the forces that made them necessary in the first place are apparently still alive and kicking.
Legal measures are worth little when the Prime Minister openly promotes the patriarchal mores that made them necessary in the first place.
But that was before schools had metal detectors, and when the sort of violence that made them necessary was less of an issue.
Also, perhaps, to what degree its theatrics have actually begun to replace the society that made them necessary in the first place.
In 1953 she became Principal of a new Ursuline Academy in Bethesda, MD where she inspired an atmosphere of cooperation, telling the students that there would be no rules in the school until they made them necessary.
Failing, he blamed "the stupid old Tory party" for making them necessary by refusing minor concessions, emphasized the "final" nature of the 1832 Act, and proclaimed his confidence that the landed interest would continue to prevail in politics as he thought it should.
But as Australia prepares for other big, and inevitably bitter, debates on things such as same-sex marriage, it was also a reminder; of how hugely divisive fights over fundamental legal equalities can be so quickly forgotten and how important it is to remember the inequalities that made them necessary in the first place.
The former would make them necessary, not contingent, beings.
