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Starlight was let a single negative incident as a child influence her whole outlook on life, and with no friends and a father who evidently wasn't any help grew into a full adult without ever questioning her moral compass because she had convinced herself that she knew what was right and didn't have a healthy reference to draw from. Only when Twilight came around did she really question what she really wanted or what felt right, and while this doesn't excuse her actions, can you fault someone who, for probably 20-25~ years, had an unchanging moral compass for not becoming a good person overnight? She made mistakes while she was effectively relearning how to be a person and Twilight was exceptionally forgiving and helped her through it, which clearly helped because after the season six finale the mistakes of this nature basically stop happening. (She's still an impulsive/whatever whatever person, but that's more of a personality quirk than a moral thing.)

In regards to your personal opinions, I think you let her redemption arc over rather course of season six affect how you viewed her over the croursegh of the rest of the show, because as I've said she becomes a noticeably more caring and understanding pony through Twilight's tutoring and the mistakes cut down to null.

I don't mean to be toxic or whatever, but I've seen far too many people not even give her a chance/vehemently hate her because she seems "evil" at face value and at this point I'm just tired of it.