...For what it's worth, from what I've heard it doesn't sound like you were fond of the catastrophe so much as you were fond of the liberation it brought with it.
Is any of it the sort of thing you'd wish on your sister or any of your subjects? No, of course not. But because the old gave way to the new, even catastrophically, you were given the opportunity to make the present better than the past.
Think of it this way. If a house burns down, and in building a replacement you craft the new house to be the kind of home you've always dreamed of, does that mean you have to look back on the fire and say, "I'm certainly glad that happened"? Absolutely not; it was a tragedy and a loss, and nothing that anyone would rationally wish for. But that also doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't be happy with what you've done in the aftermath — especially not if you've made it better for yourself than you had before.
It sounds like what you want to say is, "I'm glad things changed", without saying you necessarily support the means through which that change came about.
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Is any of it the sort of thing you'd wish on your sister or any of your subjects? No, of course not. But because the old gave way to the new, even catastrophically, you were given the opportunity to make the present better than the past.
Think of it this way. If a house burns down, and in building a replacement you craft the new house to be the kind of home you've always dreamed of, does that mean you have to look back on the fire and say, "I'm certainly glad that happened"? Absolutely not; it was a tragedy and a loss, and nothing that anyone would rationally wish for. But that also doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't be happy with what you've done in the aftermath — especially not if you've made it better for yourself than you had before.
It sounds like what you want to say is, "I'm glad things changed", without saying you necessarily support the means through which that change came about.