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Comment by stephen82 | Hacker News Reader

...so let me get this straight: you are not allowed to make mistakes in your life, because everything is digitally archived nowadays that can backfire at any time?!

What happened to

   * learn from your mistakes
   * trial and error
   * getting wiser as you grow up
   * growing up means talk less and think and act more

and all these kinds of questions?

Where are we going people?

I cannot imagine what young kids go through in this time and day when they do a mistake.

Are we forbidden from making something stupid and silly?

This is not normal everyone, not normal at all :/

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See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26041829

Those who downvoted me think I support such behavior; I don't!

You know what they say: what goes around, comes around.

Those who go after anyone who has a different opinion than theirs, will face their own actions eventually, one way or another.

What I have stated is a realization: you are not allowed to make mistakes anymore, because you are immediately condemned; period!

This downvoting here proves my point 100%.

Welcome to the era of "Cancel everything because we say so".

> Those who downvoted me think I support such behavior;

You don't know what those people think. That's the nature of downvoting. All you know is the aggregate score for your comment. That's the nature of this moderated comment system.

It’s hard to write a comment, knowing that ten years from now it will be even easier to pull up everything I have ever done or said, or perhaps even presumed to think.

At some point, when everyone’s skeletons come out of the closet, people will become more forgiving and more hopeful that people can change their behaviors. We’ll start judging people on what they can do in the future, not what they did in the past.

It’s easy to judge people on their past. It’s much harder to judge people on their unknown future. But we’ll get there.

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