User blog comment:JoxFox2109/PE Removal: Lots-O' Huggin' Bear/@comment-1705775-20190711184025

oh boy oh boy.. I'm going to lose it - I really goddamn am.. this is yet another of these "oh the character had a tragic past so they aren't really PE" BS threads I read every damn day and guess what? it's been done to death.. it's beyond stupid now and I don't care..

I've said this before and maybe someday some folk will listen - count how many characters have horrible backstories and unspeakable cruelties who DO NOT become hideous criminals later in life.. there's so many characters who have had extremely horrible things happen to them but do NOT take out their trauma on others and generally act like monsters.

a monster is a monster, to hell with the "well they had a bad thing happen and that's why they are bad" BS - they are bad because they decided to become bad.. they know right from wrong.. they just don't care to be better people.

sympathy for characters like this is just infuriating.. nothing excuses what PE characters do.. especially not the over-used "well sad past makes people turn evil" crap that has been disproven time after time in every fictional universe imaginable.. for every horrible monster formed out of a bad past you'll find great heroes and whatnot who have had just as bad, if not worse, backstories and not become horrible asshats.

Quasimodo had a horrible background, he became a loving character regardless (even Esmeralda commented on this) - so do countless others.. so no.. this whole debate is based on a thing long proven to be crap..

"tragic past =/= excuse"