I know a Spammer

This week I found out that one of my friends used to be a spammer. It was very surprising. I've always said that if I ever met a spammer I'd kick his ass. If you know me, you know that I hate motherfucking spammers. I fucking hate them sooooooooo much. They are pieces of shit, the scum of the fucking earth. When I found out that my friend was a spammer I didn't know what to do. To be fair he wasn't a really evil spammer. He 'only' sent out 800,000 emails over the course of a year, he didn't try to hide his business or get past filters, and he only sent out the mails once per address. And this was back in the late 1990s before spam really took off and before people really hated it with a passion. That's not so bad. So, I'm not actually going to kick his ass.

It really surprised me that someone who I consider to have pretty much the same world view as me, someone who I respect a lot, would come to a completely different conclusion to the question of spam than me.

I've come to believe that people who believe in different things than me (e.g. Republicans) have a completely different brain structure than me. I don't understand how Republicans can believe that it's ok to let poor people starve and that it's ok to kill people as long as they're not American and white. But my friend doesn't normally have different beliefs than me. We almost always agree. I doubt that his brain is structured differently from mine.

So how did we come to different conclusions to the question of spam?