1. depends. we all judge. judge ye as ye be judged.
2. irrelevant to number 1. and not an excuse. ever.
Discussion
Which part is irrelevant and not an excuse?
It is irrelevant what one did. To delegitimize an action one does not need a perfect history record. It depends on the argumentation.
And I think it is rather important to argue about the importance today then state that whatever thing should be forgotten as nothing happened.
Vilifying someone due to their actions when they were a kid (meaning prefrontal lobe of the brain is not fully developed!) or an adult is not the same as taking accountability and be forgotten. There are heinous things happened in the past that are not forgotten but we "learned it the hard way"! If we are too afraid to make mistakes or to fail then we will never progress, grow or innovate morally and economically as a society.
Yes totally. Noone should be afraid of mistakes. It is the fastest way to progress to commit and try while doing lot of mistakes to learn from. But there is no need to forget them. Just getting the right conclusions from them. I can show you at anytime what I could learn from a mistake. So you can see that the mistake I commited as a child, has no bad but a good influence on my new me.
Nicely put! 👏