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Originally Posted by ratbastid
How about if people are just people? People have histories. Guess what: those histories mean precisely zero about those people's present or future.
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That's not true at all. A person personal history has a great deal to do with what they are like now and what they have the potential to do in the future. Does it mean you should completely downgrade people on what they've done in the past? No. But you'd be a fool not to at least consider it in a portion of your judgement of the person especially if you are attempting to make a long term relationship with that person. I mean if you are dating somebody and they did something horrible in the past, BUT they have no signs pointing to that they would repeat the habit forgive past sins so to speak.
For example I wouldn't likely date somebody that had an extended problem with drugs or had a history of mental instability or stalking her ex boyfriends.
Just like I would hope none of the women I know would date a guy who had problems with domestic abuse or had a habit of getting a woman pregnant and then skipping out on them. No offense but ignoring a person's past totally is a good way of getting yourself screwed over.