That might possibly be the worst attempted analogy I've seen in quite a long time. A better one might have been Giles completely betraying Buffy by secretly injecting her with poison and then expecting compassion and understanding after it was found out. Wait, he didn't because he knew what he was doing. Would we have felt really, really bad if the gang didn't forgive him? I highly doubt it.

I mean, you're reaching pretty hard, probably because you realize you're not really backing your argument up with anything other WIKIpedia-level editions of BTVS storylines that neglects the lying, attempted murders, disowning and prevailing fears (founded as they were in the fallout) and lack of any betrayal with Wesley attempting to steal someone's kid and take off with it and saying it's the same thing. You could've taken a more correlative situation, like Giles in Helpless, but you chose... that.

Tell you what, we won't waste any more of our figurative breath discussing it and we'll let our unpopular opinions be.