Question of the Day

According to the news and Voxpop (Public Radio) - one of the questions of the day is "How long should a person be responsible for their past?"

My short answer for right now while you all ponder on your own is:

Until they take full, open and honest ownership for their actions and how those actions have impacted others either directly or indirectly. And made any appropriate reparation for those actions to the extent possible and applicable. That last part is hard to quantify of course but the community at large _ought_ to be such that we can all figure those kinds of things out together in a productive and meaningful way. And yet - we don't live in those kind of communities anymore do we?