Rand Simberg wrote:
No. But the subject wasn't about historical behavior. It was about
present behavior.

and present behaviour is a direct result of past/historical behaviour
as todays behaviour is learned from past behaviour

or differenty: (past) actions have (present) reactions ..

this is not an apology for any actions - it is a usefull tool to
estimate possible reactions to actions ... and ignoring this wll just
lead to repeats of past mistakes ..