Ah, gotcha, yeah I didn't know that. To be fair, hindsight is 20/20 as well. There's things my parents did that they thought were in the best interest that they say, we wish we didn't do that.

And they're Christians.

Elon was until recently basically a typical pretty liberal guy, and still isn't a Christian. Events like these are what helped him wake up and regret can be a powerful motivator to not repeat mistakes.