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johnnyFive  ·  2069 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reasons why I'm glad I'm not famous, part 2 (James Gunn edition)

The problem with that is you're literally saying that no one can ever grow. It's the same thing we've seen in election campaigns: no one's allowed to change their minds, because then that's used against them. Then we wonder why politicians blunder along doing the same thing even when it's clear it isn't working!

After all, the only difference we're talking about is that the broader public knows about it. I'm sure you have friends from when you were teenagers that said or did lousy things, and hell, I'm sure you did too. Can you genuinely tell me that you still hold things against people in your daily life that happened that long ago? When my daughter's 18, should I still buy her diapers because she wasn't potty trained once upon a time?