User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 866: The Iron Non-Giant/@comment-24850639-20170525151424

I can't say this flashback made me anymore sympathetic towards Big Mom. Yeah it's fucked up that her parents didn't have the courage to take a stand and tell her when she was doing wrong, but it's justifiable to be scared when she kills multiple people every time she loses control. Mother Carmel recognized her destructive potential immediately, and did what she had to do to try to keep the other kids, and thus humanity's relationship with the Giants safe.

I also can't blame the giants for wanting to put her down, and seeing a "demon" in her. They had definitely been letting a lot of shit go before, and realizing that outburst of destructive power that she showed is tied to an insatiable hunger, its a problem that needed to be contained at all costs. While I don't necessarily blame LinLin either for whatever is inside of her that causes this behavior, the way she was treated makes a lot of practical sense to me (minus the other kids taunting of course). As of now, if the takeaway from Big Mom's flashback is to feel somewhat sorry for her because of something she doesn't seem to be able to control or understand, and was never directly reprimanded by a parental figure for it, I'm not really feeling it. She's lived a VERY long life, a had a very long time to realize that what she does is wrong. The "hey, no one ever told me what I did was wrong" angle didn't work on me for Doffy, and it's not going to endear me to her either. Looking forward to what else her past has in store, maybe it'll make me completely change my tune.