And?

Foreshadowing: they have not.

Sounds to me you're now a better person than you were; be proud of that ^_^

I know how long the term has been around bud, we haven't even had this internet shit fifty years for fuck's sake. If you accept the shitty person you "were," why did you just produce a cruel estimation of some other person online just because you found their behaviour cringe again? This is the kind of "acceptance" people adopt when they feel guilt but don't want to change. It's also so telling to write off actual malice and cruelty in such a fundamental way as "well we all do had things." No, I've never had the inclination to treat a vulnerable person badly, go figure.

And lol, lmao, yes. Which is how I can see straight through this kind of bullshit.

I think you should go tell a therapist that your reading of "you have to work at being vulnerable to change, and superficial improvement isn't enough" was "nobody can change."

… empathy is one of the last things that fully develops.

That’s not true at all. If you didn’t develop empathy in preschool and have fully developed sense of empathy by middle to high school, you had some serious developmental issues or were raised in a bad environment.

That doesn’t mean middle and high school kids can’t be mean. That cruelty can’t be excused by undeveloped empathy. In fact, they most certainly know how the person feels and are intentionally making them feel bad.

Both of those things are wrong. You should look up what the actual study on brain maturity concluded instead of regurgitating factoids online.

Its obvious when you guys are making excuses for yourselves and passing it off as some act of empathy or understanding. That's also just false, btw, and I never wanted to hurt vulnerable people even when I was young.

It can develop earlier if you guide them