> Although, I did refer to AOL executives, FBI agents, Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors and lame wannabe hackers as dumb fucks. Both then and now. And I work with the federal government, with an agency that's often unfairly demonized by a variety of people.
Your argument against the possibility someone has undergone personal growth is that you yourself have not experienced personal growth?
Some of us can imagine having conversations like that, jokingly or seriously, in our teens while having better taste/a better worldview now as adults.