Culpability in SGA

I've recently been seeing a trend in SGA fandom of some people saying, "Oh, but it wasn't that bad that Rodney destroyed five sixths of a solar system because Sheppard woke up the Wraith, and Beckett destroyed half the population of Hoff and Rodney should totally be cut some slack because what did he do that was really that bad? I mean, it's not as if we know whether that solar system was even inhabited." Well, yeah, that's precisely the point. We don't know and it may have been and, if so, God knows how many people Rodney killed. Actually, I think it unlikely that it was inhabited, because if it had been probably that would have been explicitly stated. However, whether inhabited or not, blowing up a solar system as a result of actions that could have easily been avoided is pretty bad.

One thing I like about SGA is how it doesn't flinch from making its protagonists flawed and human and prone to mistakes. And you know what, we all make mistakes.

( But not every mistake slips over the line into pure negligence. )