So now we have an “automatic implied sorry” for someone that commits an act for which they should be sorry but does not apologize. We should just imply that they are sorry ... because they should be?

No, no - this Spontaneous Second Catharsis is all yours. Kalanick wasn’t bothered by his ass-hattery becoming public. Same with lying politicians and cheating spouses that suddenly become tremendously sorry for their actions after they get busted.

TIL: 1992 MR2, 1991 Probe and 1993 Daytona are of the same era as a 2018 Lexus.

TIL: 2018 vehicle hood regulations for pedestrian safety have remained unchanged since 1992.

TIL: an MR2 looks exactly like a Corvette.

Other way around. If you don’t apologize, you’re comfortable with the situation. Otherwise you’d apologize. And that was his mistake - his regret kept building internally until he suffered a “Spontaneous Second Catharsis” - which occurred at the moment he discovered he was caught - which is normal for lying…

That car has no engine in the front, so it can have a steeply sloping front-end.

Dear Lexus:

I’m interested in hearing more on this “Spontaneous Second Catharsis”. I believe it often occurs with lying politicians and cheating spouses. Perhaps deeper feelings are evoked when they see their acts as viewed in the third-person. The super-ego takes responsibility for the actions of the id, requiring the ego to…

You can quote it all you like, but it still does not say “no regret”. It just says “completely comfortable” - which he was - since he didn’t do anything to alleviate that regret - such as apologizing. .

Nobody is saying had zero regret. But he never had enough to do anything. He didn’t say it, didn’t show it. He had not been “squirming on the floor” earlier in private. If he had been, he would have been all squirmed out by the time he watched the video. If he had been squirming on the floor earlier, you might be on…

These things are basically zip tie tire chains

It’s exactly on topic. Neither were bothered by their behavior. It was facing the consequences that was troubling.

He could have been remoseful 10 minutes after it happened and vowed never to do it again. The fact is you and op don’t know.

“Again, more shit you can’t prove.”

“that does not mean they have not felt empathy or regret before that”

It’s pretty easy to define “true empathy” as empathy sufficient to motivate one to actually doing something. Especially if you are the one responsible for their situation. Although “sucks to be you” does recognize the other person’s situation, I wouldn’t call it “true empathy”.

What puzzles me is that you claim “you do not know that for a fact”. And then you state that you would do the exact same thing. WTF? You have the same problem as Kalanick.

Where does it say “no shame”? Only you said that, Mr. Strawman. The OP only inferred that there was insufficient shame for him to feel the need to apologize. Which he did not - until the whole world found out he was a jack-hole.

He said Kalanick “would be perfectly comfortable”. Learn to read.