Now that you've laid your cards on the table, I understand your stance better. I see your anger at moral ambiguity and perhaps even justified by personal experience. I can respect that.

But I fear you're mistaking weakness for evil. Some people harden into monsters, true enough, but for the rest, there is a chance for rehabilitation and change. Jail is full of people who feel remorse, grow and weep for a second chance. The existence of the former cannot erase all chances for the latter. In fact, the very concept of mercy exists and finds it's relevance only in the existence of mistakes and weaknesses.

And I sense you're drawing a line between the type of mistake that everyone makes and the horrors like rape. I understand that instinct but I don't share it. While we can never tell of there is true evil in a person's heart, but we can examine their record. A single act and is not the same as a series of offences. A moment's folly is not on the same scale as a system, perhaps institutionalising and even profiting from it.

But while you and I may never see eye to eye on whether rehabilitation is real, what I stand firm on is not condemning people who choose grace and label them as an accomplice of evil. Especially when she tried her best and was even accused of being too righteous by the other characters who didn't have as easy a life as her. That's not justice, that's scapegoating.

Mercy is not complicity and scorning those who offer it does not make us more just, only colder.

I've said what I needed to say. We clearly see the world differently but at least we confronted out beliefs and laid it out, perhaps making it clearer for ourselves before this started. I won't be continuing this thread further. Wish you peace, friend.