We are going back in time and acting like the Victorians that so many people like to despise as backward looking and hypocritical. The moral code they lived by was different but like them, we are taught codes of behaviour that any deviation from brings down universal moral condemnation, from which you can never ever restore your place in society.
Like them, we scour peoples lives past and present for signs that they might, at some time in the past in childhood or extreme youth, done or said something that was in conflict with their present opinions and condemn them to a life of humiliation and accusations of hypocracy.
There is no place in our society for the repentant sinner, nor was there in the late19th century.
vegansrock How about the comment I made that China seemed to be the source of most respiratory/flu type diseases that threaten pandemics, which is a fact and no comment upon the Chinese, their lives or culture. For that I was labelled racist