Player knew what was the right thing to do then. There is a difference in writing an essay for a case when you know you fucked up big time, and a case of a retarded rights abuse.
Yeah, I wasn't going to write my essay out of a self pride ideal but I realized that I just got way too drunk one night and I said things I shouldn't have in general. I can't take back what I did but I owned up to it and got unbanned.