[Poll] Does Cozy Glow deserve her fate?

Note: There are spoilers here.
 
 
Given the final aired, and the ultimate fate of Cozy Glow, anyone have problems with that? Making a poll to see how much people are fine with it.

She’s an Enragement Child. She got off easy.

Keep in mind, they tried sending her to Tartarus first (which was its own can of worms), and she escaped to try and destroy Equestria, and nearly succeeded. At this point petrifying her to try a potential redemption later is best plan.

@ArmadilloEater  
However, Discord said it was for an eternity. so it’s not gonna happen. they executed a child

Personally, I don’t think it’s a matter of “deserves” or not; you shouldn’t summarily execute* someone once they’re hoers de combat, no matter what they’ve done. Cozy very likely would’ve surrendered if they had explicitly asked her instead of turning her to stone, based on her terrified look as she was petrified, and even if she hadn’t, she was no threat in her state.  
But if it is about deserving…then why wasn’t Starlight turned to stone? She actually killed people in alternate timelines, by the millions.
 
*People will say “petrification isn’t execution”, and sure, she’s not technically dead, but if it’s really forever, as stated to be the intention, then it’s worse than death assuming ponies have an afterlife, as Discord in Season 3 explicitly indicated he was aware while petrified (he overheard Celestia talking before being unpetrified).  
Being able to see and hear, but unable to move, as ponies come and laugh at you and birds crap on you (birds were shown in the newspaper atop the statues in the epilog) is pretty horrifying, essentially taking being put in stocks and making it eternal punishment, which makes a swift execution seem merciful by comparison. It’s some consolation the three might have internal telepathy with each other in the statue, but even then, they might just devolve into bickering for thousands of years of misery.  
Now, maybe it’s only temporary, but if that’s the case, they’ve just made sure the three will be a threat to the future together, when if Cozy had been kept unpetrified, then she would’ve died of old age likely before Tirek and Chrysalis get out…  
Finally, you may say her petrification isn’t with awareness, which would defeat the idea Discord had for it, but sure, let’s consider it…this would mean if it’s forever that it’s a cessation of existence…which is the same as death without an afterlife. Only if the petrification is sans-awareness and with an end is it preferable to death, but that goes against what’s stated.
 
As to the initial imprisonment in Tartarus, it basically had the same problem: trialless punishment of a child with life imprisonment with minimal social contact that would likely drive such insane.  
Both instances of punishment are violations of Articles 5 and 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

hopefully the comics will undo this and give Cozy and Chrysalis a chance at redemption as S10 will most likely ignore the epilogue i imagine.
 
And I really can’t see Andy Price never drawing/wanting to draw Chrysalis again, so I will be cautiously optimistic the comic will succeed where the show failed and reform cozy, maybe have the student six or CMC do it. cause yeah, its pretty messed up to petrify a child, even knowing the spell can be undone, the fact it was used as an allegory for assisted suicide in S8 with Rockhoof, it makes it even more dodgy. Its like again yeah you didn’t technically murder the villains, and you can unfreeze them should anypony so choose, but its still really really messed up to do that do a child, even an evil one!

That redemption rejecting sociopathic remorseless chessmaster of a filly deserved her fate despite me actually like her as a villian. Plain and simple.

Absolutely not! Executing a child in the most brutal way possible is the kind of depraved bloodlust you see in bad fanfics.

Keeping her still imprisoned, maybe? I don’t know (Also, I’m the first vote for “other”. Yay?). Though the last 4 episodes don’t exist in my fanon (at least until they become legally available here in 2027) and she’s still at large. Still, there’s nothing showing what happened to the statue in the end, so was it really carved into that Mane 6 statue in >>2138216 then? I’m going with that until canon explicitly proves otherwise.
 
@Background Pony #5D36  
That’s a lot of the reason Cheerilee’s Garden and especially Sweet Apple Massacre are so looked down upon, if I’m not mistaken…
 
@Background Pony #7416  

 
I somehow doubt IDW is allowed to touch the Season 10 villains. So:  
@Ghost Reviews  

 
We shall see, #7416. We shall see.

Definitely a threat to Equestria, she wears the perfect costume to mislead others into what she really is.

From what I’ve seen the big hangup from people in the “no” side stems from the whole “petrification == execution” idea, while people in the “yes” side mostly don’t agree with that assumption. I think it’s a big leap to call it that.
 
Yes, Discord said “eternity”, but that doesn’t mean they’ll keep ‘em there forever. Heck, Discord was unstoned a few months/years/undisclosed amount of time after being stoned the second time. And his reformation worked (albeit with a few major slip ups), so he’s a good example of why it’s a viable solution.
 
Also for the idea of Discord being conscient while transformed into a lawn ornament, it steams from a throwaway line that basically boils down to “Celestia is so annoying, even being petrified didn’t save me from her nagging”. One, this could be at joke at Celly’s expense, two we’re talking about Discord here, just look at what happened to Pinkie and Cozy when they took on his power, we can’t base the rules on him.

@ArmadilloEater  
Even if we assume it isn’t actually forever (awfully big assumption given the petrification was done with the power of Discord and both princesses together), I’d still call it worse than death if they’re gonna be aware of things for 1000 years; Discord can handle that, but I doubt the three of them can.
 
So, on the point of awareness:  
Celestia, while next to petrified Discord, said to have Fluttershy reform him, then flew off. They then unpetrified him. He immediately talked about how cute it was that they thought Fluttershy could do it, and when asked how he knew about it, said he heard Celestia talking.  
Sure, Discord could assume Celestia put them up to it, and that it would be reformation, but also that Fluttershy would do it? He also indicated that being petrified was like wearing a stone bodysuit, and visuals of unpetrification seem to back that up.  
More recently, Mudbriar said “the experience” of being petrified gave him a new appreciation of rocks. That seems to indicate he was aware.

I think it is horrifying.  
Discord had second and THIRD chance.  
Starlight nearly desrtoyed TIME and SPACE, for the pettiest of reasons.
 
But a child, misunderstanding the concept of friendship, and seemly orphan is treated as the devil? Really?
 
It nothing less then jarring and grimdark. They don’t even question it.  
If there were something like.  
‘Do we have to do it to her?”  
“I am sorry, but we have to we have because of Y X Z.’  
Something!  
Both the end of the last two seasons were nothing less then jarring because of it  
It feel very anti anything mlp stand for.

@Princess Luna  

Intent comes to mind. I mean, Starlight definitely didn’t set out to kill anyone. Heck, she wasn’t even trying to rule Equestria. Her entire goal was simply to take away Twilight’s friends, in the same way she thought Twilight had taken away the “friends” of the village she once lead. She also clearly didn’t know how badly she had messed things up, since Twilight had to drag her into the alternate timeline for her to see what happened.
 
Plus, Twilight’s literally the only one who knows how the other timelines played out, and once Starlight let things go back to normal, all those other possibilities no longer existed. It’s a little weird to suggest punishing her for things that never actually happened and events that don’t exist.
 
Cozy Glow, on the other hand, knew exactly what she was doing. The things Starlight did by accident and without awareness of the consequences were Cozy Glow’s ultimate goals and the stuff she was actively working to achieve. And while they were undeniably both wrong in what they did, the distinctions between their intentions and actions is why one villain got a chance to make amends and work to be better, and why the other simply had to be contained.

Cozy Glow’s fate is a just punishment for the severity of her crimes and her lousy attitude.

She had her chance and she blew it, and honestly, I’m not even convinced that she’s as young as she appears to be.

@Moonatik  
She’s probably older than Spur, if the latter’s design is any indication.

@Moonatik  

 
When did she had her chance?  
And it seems she is younger then the CMC

@Raduga  
Both times she was defeated she made it abundantly clear that she had no remorse.

@Moonatik
 
Twilight wanting to know why seemed like a possible olive branch to me… which she gave the power spiel, to the one she betrayed.
 
Cozy Glow is literally proud of the fact that she’s evil.
 
If you pay attention, she’s the one who starts singing A Better Way To Be Bad, she sings the most lines, and she’s also the first one to acknowledge that they’re evil in said song.

It was proven she is misguided child, if anything..

@Princess Luna  
Again, it’s Discord. God of chaos, Mr “fuck the rules I am chaos incarnate”. Don’t want to be rude, but I feel that you guys don’t like the petrification because you assume the worst in all instances, calling it grimdark and stuff, when, you know, this be a show about unicorns, rainbows, friendship and generally all things pink and cute.
 
If you gave the ponies just the most basic benefit of the doubt, for exemple assuming that they are planning to try and reform them one at a time of something, you wouldn’t have this much of a reaction to it. Don’t let the grimmdark route become your default view, that’s a sure way to ruin everything for yourself.

She’s an evil child in a world where magical artifacts and destructive villain allies are possible to reach, intelligence as written by an adult writer as opposed to the intelligence level of irl how-ever-old-Cozy-is year olds, having almost done the equivalent of removing electricity from our world, and almost taking over the world the second time. All out of pure want for power, and self-stated evil to the point where she considers herself a better villain than Tirek or Chrysalis. Comparing her to how we deal with real life troubled kids is a little silly.
 
All that said, it’s definitely more in keeping with the themes of the show to at least imply they would attempt to reform them after being stoned for good while, and I wish they would’ve said as much.
 
I am open to changing my mind on this, though.
 
@Raduga  
The point with Starlight is a definite exaggeration, the Cozy part is outright wrong. She definitely understands the concept of friendship, she simply uses it to her advantage via genre savviness. I don’t even recall a single moment of non-deceptive empathy from her. Even Tirek likes his grandma…

She is a child with issues. Maybe too smart, but without the maturity to back it up.  
She maybe smart, but there weren’t need for her to be in hell/tartarus.  
It seems she doesn’t have family.  
Ponies unlike us humans, should have better way to deal with her, rather then roclify her.  
And since the show ended, we have to assume this is the end for her.

Its essentially death if she never gets free so no. She is just a kid!