"if I do something when I am a child, I have a right to use physical violence to stop people from telling stories about it later." Well you have taken a very r

"if I do something when I am a child, I have a right to use physical violence to stop people from telling stories about it later." Well you have taken a very reasonable argument, removed all context, and taken it to the most illogical extreme you could. The argument is that for all of human evolution we have been able to try, fail and learn in small societies which forget, now we have to do it in a large society that doesn't forget. If we fail society will remind us of our failure by mocking us, this is a natural thing, and good for us, it encourages us to learn from our failures. Once we learn and correct the failure society and ourselves move on and forget. If we can't forget we can't move on, instead of trying new things we over think our past failures. You can't change the past or learn anything new from the failure and so just live in regret and get depressed. A society full of depressed people that wallow in regret is not good, check out the statistics of male suicide if you want to see just how self destructive such a society is. The internet is a world wide society that never forgets. If you make a mistake instead of your society of friends and family taking the micky, you have the entire world mocking you. Many of the people mocking you are depressed and filled with regrets, they are not worried about things getting out of hand, in fact they want it they want other people to feel their regret so the mocking quickly escalates beyond healthy mocking. Maybe you are made of tougher stuff, maybe you can elevate yourself above all the criticism, but most people in a society can't. Its not about morality, the right to fail, learn and move on is necessary property of a functioning society.