PurpleCandlelight
Since: Aug, 2018
Sep 22nd 2020 at 11:25:38 AM
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So, like... Do we edit this, and if so, how do we edit this, so that it doesn't downplay the actions it's clearly written to excuse? Without silencing someone else's opinion because this is the YMMV page and I don't want to spread the idea that these actions are morally justifiable but I also don't want to be that annoying edit war person who puts their opinions first and tries to silence others' opinions on the YMMV page. So I'd like advice on if it should be changed and how, please.
WretchedDog2
Since: Nov, 2018
Jan 10th 2019 at 6:35:23 PM
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How can a character be a Jerkass Woobie and The Scrappy at the same time?
I have serious problems with the "Informed Wrongness" entry but I don't want to start an edit war so I want to hear others' opinions. Aggie murdered her accusers, all seven of them. According to the computer screen Salma brings up, they dropped dead at the moment of Aggie's own death. Aggie murdered seven people in revenge for her own life being taken and then locked them in their own corpses for three hundred years so they would be abused by others. They weren't good people, but that's hardly "informed wrongness." Besides, the point of Norman's line was partially the fact that Aggie had hurt herself as much as any of her accusers, become just like them in making herself into a monster. It really feels like the Informed Wrongness entry is trying to downplay the cruelty of Aggie's actions towards others and herself. The implication I got was that the troper thinks Aggie's actions were fine and Norman is wrong for disagreeing with them, which is... more than a bit disturbing. Aggie didn't "just" wait until her accusers were dead to punish them. She murdered seven people, locked them in their own rotting corpses for 300 years, attacked and razed a town of complete strangers she knew nothing about other than that she wanted to encourage them to hurt others so they'd punish her accusers more, and tried to kill Norman. Repeatedly. A tragic and sympathetic character she may be, but I'm disturbed anyone could see disagreeing with her choices as "Informed Wrongness."
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