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The reason why Ben could not kill Penny when he saw she had a child was the same reason why he could not kill Danielle when he saw that she had a child: Ben's own mother died giving birth to Ben. Ben may be able to kill a random person if it suits his or the island's purposes, but if he sees a woman as a mother, and realizes that he would be putting that child through the same motherless life he lived through. He is unable to inflict the suffering he felt from not having a mother his whole life onto another innocent child. Evidence: Ben was fully prepared to kill Penny until the moment he saw little Charlie and realized she was a mother. To claim that he coincidentally had an epiphany about (insert first theory, above, here) would diminish the intentional impact the writers made of Ben see

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  • The reason why Ben could not kill Penny when he saw she had a child was the same reason why he could not kill Danielle when he saw that she had a child: Ben's own mother died giving birth to Ben. Ben may be able to kill a random person if it suits his or the island's purposes, but if he sees a woman as a mother, and realizes that he would be putting that child through the same motherless life he lived through. He is unable to inflict the suffering he felt from not having a mother his whole life onto another innocent child. Evidence: Ben was fully prepared to kill Penny until the moment he saw little Charlie and realized she was a mother. To claim that he coincidentally had an epiphany about (insert first theory, above, here) would diminish the intentional impact the writers made of Ben see
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  • The reason why Ben could not kill Penny when he saw she had a child was the same reason why he could not kill Danielle when he saw that she had a child: Ben's own mother died giving birth to Ben. Ben may be able to kill a random person if it suits his or the island's purposes, but if he sees a woman as a mother, and realizes that he would be putting that child through the same motherless life he lived through. He is unable to inflict the suffering he felt from not having a mother his whole life onto another innocent child. Evidence: Ben was fully prepared to kill Penny until the moment he saw little Charlie and realized she was a mother. To claim that he coincidentally had an epiphany about (insert first theory, above, here) would diminish the intentional impact the writers made of Ben seeing little Charlie and only then deciding his course of action was wrong. There was a too strong of a parallelism/foreshadowing between Ben not killing Danielle because she was a mother and then not killing Penny because she is a mother. Both incidents were seen in the same episode, making the connection between the two events even stronger. * Furthermore, Ben's decision to "take" children from island newcomers differs sharply from the Widmore policy of extermination and is also a direct result of his seizure of power - Ben cannot carry out such cold extermination, and this is why Ben believes he is such a better leader than Widmore.
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