Exactly. I wrote the parent comment and recall a pretty senior Australian medical specialist friend of my wife visiting us in San Francisco at the height of the

Exactly. I wrote the parent comment and recall a pretty senior Australian medical specialist friend of my wife visiting us in San Francisco at the height of the aids crisis. He was embarrassingly, virulently anti homosexual. Today the same guy has totally different views as society has evolved and probably doesn't even remember his former perspective. He's alive and when he dies will have his reputation intact. Had he died while being negative about gay people by current social mores he would have his views frozen for all time. Separately, also never underestimate people's life experiences shaping their views. We can all learn from events in other people's lives that shaped their perspective. Not healthy to rinse that away.