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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I think we need to distinguish from attacking things a 14 year old did and the person he is now.
What he did was terrible, that does not automatically make him a terrible person now. He may have grown and learned from this.
Some of these back and forth posts on here scream witch-hunt. And piling on anyone who defends the concept of change is just as bad.
Seriously, go back and read what cannon7 said. It’s a perfectly reasonable post. But nope, gotta get on that high horse and attack him for defending the possibility that a child could change.
But, we all need to evaluate whether or not this kid has actually changed. That’s a totally separate issue. No one is defending the person he turned into. It’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
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There are a fair share of guttural, reactive posts that step over the line a bit. However, I think most rational posters that are targeting his current character are forming their opinions based on his choice to try and manage the damage rather than seemingly show any genuine measure of remorse and atonement even 4 years after the fact and as a young adult. That's fair criticism, IMO.
And I personally don't think the post was that reasonable as this is not close to normal "kids being kids" stuff.