[While they broadly agree and are largely unsympathetic to any of the various pity parties involved here, and they have a lot more respect for Homura than they do for Shiv or nearly everyone else here, but they still feel the need to comment.]

It has nothing to do with mitigating factors. [They say this plainly.] Nobody likes a victim that doesn't roll onto its belly like a puppy and beg for forgiveness and pity.