The baggage is the baggage, but the most important thing is that he seems to be genuinely agreeing, without spite, that he and others behaved shamefully.

It seems they are moving toward agreeing on vague formulas,

This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)