@Ten Rulle
shit happens lol

@Background Pony #BB00
Ok maybe I was wrond ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’m sure she’ll be someone who’d do nothing deleterious with any opportunity to act further. Probably. Right?
@Ten Rulle
If anything, it’s fortunate/lucky for Twilight that she had the opportunity to make a friend and ally out of it.

Starlight was an overall net positive to have rehabilitated her in the state she was at where she’s remorseful and admits there was no excuse for her actions. Taking a severe punishment approach instead would’ve been more to soothe one’s own ego than anything. Twilight saw something that could be latched onto in that case, so she took it.

There’s also something to be said on the difference in underlying motivations/mindset between the two. Starlight at least in her mind was trying to help others with what she was doing, even if it was rather self-serving in nature (and her ideology was deconstructed), whereas Cozy was just shamelessly naked about her power-hunger and betrayals of everyone who loved her, and such a contrast can be seen in how they responded to Twilight asking them “why.” Cozy Glow doesn’t seem to have any real sense of morals about her, or any real desire to benefit others, warped or not.

One of the most plausible things you could realistically get out of Cozy, far as one might tell, staying as true to her expressed mindset as possible, is for her to at some point rationally realize that it isn’t worth it to proceed, which isn’t a sentiment she’s expressed; she seems more likely to realize it than Chrysalis (whose zealous hatred and pride for all practical purposes makes her pretty much irredeemable, unless you’re going to wholesale give her a sob story to help “fix” things and excuse her path), but perhaps less so than Tirek might (in which, not to downplay how much of an asshole he is, but his old age might potentially lead to weariness of that cycle, and he was at most one or two more failures away from that).

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In any case, I think the comic should probably speak for itself on whichever take it decides to go with on Cozy, which, could be wrong, but it looks like it’s leaning heavily on main antagonist, BBEG, very much fine with what she’s doing.

And here you are absolutely wrong.

https://www.firststepalliance.org/post/norway-prison-system-lessons
https://rehabilitationnotincarceration.weebly.com/swedens-prison-system.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l554kV12Wuo
Get real boii

@Ten Rulle
Not really. Harsher punishments never really effected crime rates.

@Background Pony #0FB6
No punishment = no fear of punishment = more criminals

@Ten Rulle
Because rehabilitation is not only more moral but allows the former criminals to use their skills for the betterment of society rather then being essentially tortured.

@Background Pony #0FB6
Why?

@Background Pony #AC5A
It will probably never end.

We’re really having this discussion again?

@Ten Rulle
Because, rehabilitation should be preferable then permanent incarceration in inhumane conditions.

@Background Pony #0FB6
Why not?

@Ten Rulle
Perhaps, but the consequences should not rob them of any chance at rehabilitation, especially not with a child.

@Background Pony #0FB6
If someone is old enough to do bad stuff of that large scale, they sure old enough for consequences

@Background Pony #BB00
So… how many terrorists they rehabilitated exactly?

@Ten Rulle
Or children.

@Ten Rulle
norway.

@Background Pony #0FB6
Would like to see someone trying to rehabilitate real-world tyrants or terrorists

@Ten Rulle
Indeed. Cozy would have been rehabilitated in a more fair world.

@Background Pony #0FB6
Well, world isn’t fair. Very sad, I know

@Ten Rulle
But if Starlight didn’t, then Cozy’s should be lesser.

@Background Pony #0FB6
Nah, that’s Starlight who need to get consequences, not Cozy to get away from them

@Ten Rulle
Still, she suffered no consequences. Cozy should have at least suffered a much lesser punishment as a result.

@Background Pony #0FB6
Starlight just got lucky because Twilight couldn’t beat her up in 1o1 so she had te convince her to stop

@Ten Rulle
But she wasn’t, therefore Cozy deserves the same freedom she does.