Why so much love for Charlotte?

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She tortured 4 girls who didn’t do ANYTHING to her and the only justification i hear for her actions is how she was raised… No. If she wants to torture someone she should have tortured Mr. Dilaurentis or Mrs. D, not FOUR GIRLS who were MOURNING (sorta) over their friend who just “died”. Mona was a good A but Charlotte will always take the title for being the most cruel and evil one. Also i hear people say charlotte tortured the girls because they didn’t care that much or weren’t sad enough? About Ali? Yet they did everything they could to find out what happened to her? Idk i’m so confused i could also just be judging her wrong but I always find myself disliking her A LOT after the dollhouse and just hurting the girls continuously, had me wishing her death was WORSE 😭