In conclusion, all French people should be shot.
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New analogy.
You're taking an exam, someone in your vicinity starts talking. The moderator thinks that it is you and threatens to cancel your paper. You and those sat directly around you manage, after a lot of arguing, to convine the moderator that you weren't talking and so he does not cancel your paper, apologising for accusing you.
Better to be sorry than wrong in that case. Say that was your GCSE's or A-Levels or whatever. If he was wrong and stood by that, cancelling your paper then you'd have all your exams cancelled and would have to sit the whole course again. Being sorry, however, you finish the exams and pass with flying colours.
In that situation it's better to be sorry than wrong.
Howzat?!