This isn't about making mistakes and being human. It's about destroying millions of lives, for thousands of years. It's about being monsters.

[She knew that she was starting to get unfairly terse with Mari, who had no way of knowing the scope and severity of her deeds, but the pressure of the man's urgent pleas were getting to her.]

How is getting eaten for something they don't even understand atonement?

...

I, too, got eaten by a titan, because I was unable to stop them.

[Granted, for her, it had played out differently than for her people, but this was what had happened.]

It's what we Eldians deserve for doing the same to the other human races.