can you explain...

this.
when you said "apologies for unintentional harm"
is that something people do generally?
"that"= apologizing for things they didnt mean....
have seen this happen in a store...
a person is pushing their shopping cart along the aisle.
and then they crash it into the cart of another person.
some of them say "im sorry".
when was being taught "social skills" (what ever that was worth... with the mother being a psychiatric nurse, and her boyfriend/step-father being a psyciatrist, dont know how much they were able to teach social skills), they would say that if crashed into someone needed to say "excuse me"....
so when these people say "im sorry"
had always thought that they crashing into people on purpose....
BUT now, after reading what you wrote...
apologizing for unintentional harm...
it seems to fit in with what those shopping cart crashers may be doing... apologizing for unintentional harm... in which case they never intended to crash into anyone... and if so... then when does one say "excuse me"?
and second... why does a person apologize for something they never meant to do?

had always been under the impression that when am supposed to say "im sorry" was when did something that did when knowing what would happen, and did it anyways.

can you help explain some of this.?.

lg

caveat: hoping none of this sounded rude or sarcastic or in any way lacking in social skils.. for none of that was intended.. so if it did..
excuse me.