She smiled slightly, shaking her head. "No, it's fine. I get it, you're protective. But that doesn't mean I have to like him. I just don't, but I can keep myself from insulting him infront of you." well, she'd try anyway. She wasn't going to like they guy just because he had experience a hard time. They all had, many people here had been to hell and back, some quite literally. He'd given her no reason to like him, and so she didn't.
"So you almost took the guy away that she loved and help end the world." she said, summing it up. "Also sounds familiar." and yet she had moved on from blaming Faith for that.
Placing one hand under her chin to prop it up as she leaned forward, she looked at Buffy with a wary smile. "My best friend almost destroyed the world. One of the people I trust the most with my girls put me through a year of hell, and tried to destroy the world. I almost ended the world once...by accident...but hey, I almost did. Point is, Ruby. Lots of people have almost destroyed the world, but they were stopped, and then they were forgiven. Why you're getting the major beating here, I don't know. Maybe you're just the lucky one who gets shit on the most."
And no, she wasn't saying what Ruby had done was okay, it was just that many, many people had screwed up majorly, and then they had been forgiven. "I'm not saying you get a free pass for what you did, but I don't see why you deserve to be shunned completely, and forever either. At least not if you're being honest about what you're saying." and for all Buffy knew it could be lies.