Another interesting thing to note is that some victims actually said they would have forgiven their abuser, no questions asked, if he actually apologized.
Obviously, John Smyth was too proud and too religious and too conservative to come out and apologize to the (then) boys he abused.
Conservatards really just make the situation worse for everyone, all the time. They make it worse for themselves by hiding and refusing to apologize for their mistakes, and then when they get revealed the society goes into hysterics and overreacts, leading to mass-repression to "prevent this ever happening again".
Pathetic.
Conservatards are pretty pathetic.
The only ones who are not pathetic are those who are open, and they are precious few.