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redrocket posted...

Look, Im normally all for not letting a single event define a persons entire life. But there is somewhere a line that exists, that once crossed, makes that fair. Im pretty comfortable with saying that cold blooded torture-murder is on the far side of that line.

sure. and i would agree without any context

but when you learn of the world that these people exist in, the violence of it, it certainly shifts the way I look at it.
and then when you learn of who this person is and why they have engaged with the act, it shifts the way i look at it again.

i might not agree with what abby did, but i can still have a level of understanding of why that is, and that changes how i look at her entire character. thats the point, to me. the shift. not how much of a shift it is, but that there is one. that this person can do something totally heinous, and then when one understands the context of that act, your opinion of them changes and shifts.

its asking us to not be so black and white. its asking us to remember that context exists. its asking us to remember that people live entire lives and have entire existences that shape the context of actions, regardless of how awful those actions might be.

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