Apologizing and backtracking just makes you look weak and spineless and makes your original point lose its message

Not only that, but we have enough proof now that the people who you're apologizing to won't accept it. They'll just say "oh, you apologized? Fine. I accept it, for now. But for the rest of existence, whenever I want a little more clout or that little rush of dopamine you can only get by knowing you're better than somebody, I'm going to dig up this comment and make you go through the whole motions again and say "I'm sorry! I'm sorry and I'm a terrible person and let it be known from here on out forevermore that YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME!"...and we'll keep doing it, forever, until your death. And when you die, I'm bringing it up again so we can all piss on your grave."