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OH, back in the day, back in the day, back in the DOYYYYY

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RE: OH, back in the day, back in the day, back in the DOYYYYY

K.
Hello, traveler.

This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.

Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"

Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.

People are allowed to change their views.

Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.

If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: OH, back in the day, back in the day, back in the DOYYYYY

I felt the same way a couple years ago when I went through and read a few old PMs I exchanged with random_name, about half a decade after we sent them. I immediately called upon Stalin to save me from ever seeing them again.

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OH, back in the day, back in the day, back in the DOYYYYY

This is why we don't raise old users back from the dead. They come back wrong... well, wronger.

Jklol. Welcome back.
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