chapotraphouse

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of people especially in the west do not start off progressive (at most some shallow facade of it), and their surroundings are inherently deeply regressive and reactionary.

She can and has to learn such basic decency and boundaries/moral or ethical convictions of her own accord, and that's a work in progress that takes time to figure out. Her environment and upbringing certainly isn't going to give it to her, rather the opposite...

I'm not giving her or anyone else a pass for being "fine with reactonaryism" (if this is the cause, which- well yeah, probably on some level). But understanding that it's a process of learning to be better, especially when living in the rotten core of all modern reactonaryism and evil, is just reality.