@Misadventure said in The 100: The Mush:
So you are in fact asserting that you cannot ever, EVER, say I am sorry you took it that way without being insincere?
Correct? No other possible meaning or circumstance?
Respectfully, I'm with @surreality on this one. If you say "I'm sorry you took it that way", you're ultimately saying "there was nothing wrong with my action, but I am sorry for your choice in interpretations of my action". Thus, it's tricky, but it's not an apology for doing anything. It's sympathy that someone else chose to interpret the situation incorrectly, which has nothing to do with the apologizer at all. It's not an apology.
So IMO there's no way to say "I'm sorry you took it that way" is an apology without some other apologetic statement tacked onto the end that you're actually apologizing for, like: "I'm sorry, I didnt think about how this might affect you."