Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26469589-20150620015100/@comment-28584561-20150620021329

Morality is a fickle thing. Jasper in the eyes of her people isn't in the wrong but in the eyes of humanity and those that side with it, Jasper begins to become more villanous.

Jasper, after the ship exploded, was anything but mentally scarred. She was really hypocritical. She said fusion was a cheap trick and proceeds to do it anyway. She wanted to win so badly that she threw away what "honor" she had, also forcing a gem who literally does not want to fight into a fusion (hmmmmm. I wonder why Lapis double crossed her?), and look what that lead to.

A few bad things? You mean a few bad things we've seen her do on screen. Jasper took part in the war thousands of years ago. A war in which Garnet describes as "a maelstrom of death and destruction". Rose had a decent army. Now it's reduced to Garnet and Pearl. Jasper is affiliated to homeworld. Homewrold forcibly fused broken Gem shards without discretion and consent. They initially wanted to literally suck all life on earth for their purposes. And Jasper is still in the army of said world.

The fusion is as much of a punishment as being thrown into jail. If you just make her go back to her gem, she isn't being punished at all. And after what Jasper did and took part in, I doubt the Crystal Gems would shatter her.

Also, you seem to forget that it wasn't the Crystal Gems nor Steven that imprisoned her in her watery jail. It was all of Lapis' doing. Her punishement to Jasper was as equal as a punishment to herself.