Why should someone have the ability to scrub their past and pretend they are perfect?
That’s not what it does. People are capable of changing on their own and thus should have the right for their past mistakes or opinions to be forgotten, or just to be forgotten anyway.
Having their past or just current opinions dragged up can actually have the opposite effect and force them to double down. So having some way of getting rid of it all could actually help them work through their terrible opinions.
If someone go out in public spouting terrible opinions, I think they should be responsible for explaining why they were wrong and why they no longer believe what they used to. That is hard and requires actually growing as a person, instead of just deleting their past and pretending they never said what they did.
We think it’s okay to grow, learn from it and not do it again without necessarily explaining it etc. But we do understand the value of doing it the way you think it should be done too.
That’s not what it does. People are capable of changing on their own and thus should have the right for their past mistakes or opinions to be forgotten, or just to be forgotten anyway.
Having their past or just current opinions dragged up can actually have the opposite effect and force them to double down. So having some way of getting rid of it all could actually help them work through their terrible opinions.
If someone go out in public spouting terrible opinions, I think they should be responsible for explaining why they were wrong and why they no longer believe what they used to. That is hard and requires actually growing as a person, instead of just deleting their past and pretending they never said what they did.
We think it’s okay to grow, learn from it and not do it again without necessarily explaining it etc. But we do understand the value of doing it the way you think it should be done too.