Talk:A Single Pale Rose/@comment-27011284-20180509011634/@comment-995426-20180510213047

Surtur13: I believe this series is trying to teach more complicated adult lessons of evaluating complex people. It was wrong to place Rose Quartz on such a pedestal, but it is also wrong to demonize her outright. Pink Diamond did harm, and told lies, and kept harmful secrets. But I believe her personality is ultimately a loving one, especially as it remanifests in Steven. By the end, before Steven's birth, I think the only person she truly had trouble loving was herself. Why? The lyrics of "Love Like You."

The more mature way to react to a person who has done such bad things, is to hold them ethically accountable for their past decisions, evaluate how dangerous they may still be (such as if they are unrepentant), accept the past for what it is, and try to forgive. Rose ultimately removed herself from the equation, becoming a newly rebooted person, Steven. With Rose gone, she is no longer able to answer for anything, but neither is she able to do any new harm. There will still fallout and consequences, as often is the case when such harm is done, but now the decisions are in the hands of others and not with her. If anything, I see Rose as someone who could not successfully transcend her own fatal personality flaws even after thousands of years, and Steven stands a chance of being a better person than she could ever be. That may have been the best decision she ever made.