[To her it matters a lot. Despite their status, in her universe robotic life is not cruel unless programmed to be so - she can count the exceptions on her one hand. In fact, freed of human interference, robotic life has become...actual life, like the Silentium. If anything, they wanted nothing to do with organic life.

[The urge to harm like that...to her, she sees a triple tragedy - the people who suffered, robotic life designed to harm, and some sort of controlling intelligence cruel enough to create it.]

[Like she had been programmed to do, once.]

It is terrible regardless - but such cruelty is illogical. In any event, I hope it is very definitely a past tense where you are from.