People learning from experience is a good thing.

If we, as a species, only learned from our own personal experiences, we'd still be dwelling in caves.

He is 50 years old.

It would be, if they then use that experience to modify their stance in a consistent manner but that is not what is happening here.

Sure. But if the only way Elon can learn why something is bad is through first-hand experience, will he act against speech that threatens minority groups he's not part of? What about those that are economically disadvantaged?

You can already see this lack of empathy at work in how he's trying to claw back severance he owes Twitter's ex-employees.