Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4010415-20190821235946/@comment-32346149-20190823032130

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: One implication that might aggravate people about this is that it would suggest Cinder is someone who was or would otherwise be good, but was led astray. Folks wanted her to be pure evil the whole time and never good. That's not what we say. You keep mischaracterizing your opponents. The only thing that matters is that she's pure evil now. What gets under my skin (as well as others) is not the notion that she was once (or had the capacity) to be good, but rather the notion that a painful past excuses her present behavior (which happens to be psychotic mass murder with no remorse).

The idea that Cinder had the opportunity to be good doesn't bother me, because it doesn't matter. Hitler had the opportunity to be good. He could have just been a freelance artist. But he chose mass murder and genocide, and thus became a monster. Same as Cinder. You don't get a pass because of your past misfortune/mistakes.