It never occurs to anyone at Gawker how easily such a gesture would have frayed the bonds that tied its enemies together. An apology would have sapped the conspiracy of its power and put Thiel’s and Hogan’s goals in conflict. It would have put Gawker in a position to be the good guys again in front of a jury: We said we were sorry. This guy who screwed his friend’s wife just won’t let it go. But to apologize they would have had to see themselves from another perspective, an unbiased and human one that was capable of wrongdoing and meanness, and they couldn’t. Instead, their intransigence only
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