User blog comment:Xbsv/PE Removal Proposal: Abigail Williams/@comment-2059440-20190613163652

trauma alone doesn't always migate a PE btw, whether of not Abigail counts will be for others as I know little on Crucible the mentality that just because a character has a tragic or traumatic past disqualifies them is a flawed one, many of the most depraved serial killers in fiction have extremely abusive backstories but they lose sympathy because they become as bad, if not worse, than the abusers in later life.

there's also the continued controversy that many characters go through trauma and do not become "evil", let alone Pure Evil - so while trauma may have some degree of blame it by no means makes them void of responsibility.. unless they become dissociated or psychotic (even then they can only be seen as exempt from crimes if criminally insane by law.. even *that* can't always save them since insane characters like Joker can still be PE, despite the fact the have been proven as criminally insane).