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What does “allowed to have a past” mean?

What a person does today can have long-lasting ramifications.

If you decided to chop off your own hand, for some misguided reason, ain’t nobody ever growing you that hand back. The permission to “have a past” is not absolute.

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People are not born perfect. People do stupid stuff and post it on instagram when they're young, but people continue to grow and learn throughout their lives. What I'm saying is that I don't see any benefit to dragging up someone from the past's beliefs and putting them into an article next to the IKEA name, except to create a clickbaity article that serves someone else's interests in an obscure way.

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