Often natural writers and intrinsically fair minded persons view the world from their angle and evaluate the situations from a fair man's perspective.
You are right from your angle and you are a nice person.
But the majority and the general rule is not like that.
You can always maintain your soft and gentle approach at heart but you have to be tough to survive in this unfair world.
Even the greatest lifestyle experts today would not advice you to apologize even if you are wrong.
Values have taken a somersault