She may also be a deranged and unrepentant child abuser who uses whatever societal approval is thrown her way to justify and escalate her abuse. There’s simply no way to know.
Maybe they understood the point and disagreed with it.
The point, if such a thing exists, is to accept any and all of those possibilities with equanimity.
sure, but taking one assumption is to approach from a position of harsh condemnation and the other is to approach from a position of possible forgiveness.
Sufficiently deranged people take forgiveness as approval and encouragement. It may be good to forgive and may not (at least in your external behavior—going around internally upset all the time is surely not good for anyone regardless). It requires prudence to figure out one way or the other.