Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181229081856/@comment-26018514-20190111063918

Masma93 wrote: Ironwood is not as much as responsible of Penny's fate as Emerald is... 1. That's not exactly what DA is saying, DA is implying that Ironwood's responsible in the sense that he created extraneous qualifiers for a test he didn't tell anyone was happening, essentially this would be like someone who handles flammable materials being given battery acid with a "flammable" label instead of the proper ones about handling acids... not that his intent was at fault, just methodology.

2. Ultimately Ironwood's responsibility is only partly absolved if he didn't know about Pyrrha's semblance, but his methodology and intent make relatively clear he didn't see Penny as human, because otherwise he would never have put her life at risk by not notifying opponents on her "specs'(as far as her non-human composition). By not doing so, he was acting in completely bad faith in the next generation of huntsmen by assuming they couldn't scratch her or that she was otherwise incapable of miscalculating applied force in a field that if magnetism wasn't common at least misdirection should be.