Other replies hit on it, but I’ll be succinct. The whole theme of Aliens is “mother protects no matter what”. That what Ripley did for her “daughter”, Newt, while the Alien queen protected her brood.

I... I just... I don’t want to judge because I once witnessed my psycho ex leave a club with his other girlfriend and walk toward his house, and he just smiled and waved at me and kept walking, and the next day I (confronted him with the irrefutable evidence of my eyes) allowed myself to be convinced again that they…

Clearly not defending her acts stabbing a woman 33 times, but how could anyone know that about her and not automatically assume she doesn't have some level of psych issues at play?

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Good for you. Enjoy that bed of self righteousness with the Duggards, Santorum and the like.

That is a completely fair assessment. It’s hard to get a job with just a Bachelor’s as it is, let alone a felon. Just a reminder that prison is not for reformation, because it seems like she was pretty well reformed but the punishment continued.

What a tragic life. No life at all, really. Childhood, prison, suicide. Very sad for that to be the sum of a human’s experience on this earth.

A lot of the answer is right there in your second sentence.

I will never understand how anyone can support the death penalty, In the US there have been so many studies shown that black people are more likely to face death penalty than white people and that the murderers of white victims were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed black victims.…