Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161003005933/@comment-24674051-20161018173253

In my opinion, David gets off scot free for Percival because he was countering an attack against Regina. He was not the agressor, and he was not trying to commit murder, he was in a defensive mode. Similarly, Regina, at the point where she killed the Count, was in what I would consider a defensive mode in that she was defending Snow and David, who were incapacitated and defenseless. And it's not like she didn't try to stop the Count by other means first. So, in the case of the Count, Regina has earned a pass.

As for David with the Black Knights in the Pilot, again, he was not the attacker, but the defender. He did what he needed to do to protect himself and his baby.

Where Regina does not get a pass is the mass murder of villages, and the other acts that she perpetrated as the Evil Queen, leading up to the first curse. She can be forgiven, and her actions of late would seem to indicate a true repentence and remorse for what she did, and she is trying now to live a changed life. So forgiveness is an option, and as both Regina and Killian have pointed out, they ultimately need to be able to forgive themselves for what they did wrong in the past. They are both struggling with finding that self-forgiveness, and that is a good thing.