If pity was something was something that Abrogail Thrune went about feeling, she knows she would be feeling it now.  'Abrogail' feels it, therefore.  "That is something like what I might expect to remain in a society that had gone much much much too far in the direction of Good, after they'd taken something deep and real in human nature and flattened it down into a small sad remnant they deemed acceptable."

If pity was something that Abrogail Thrune went about feeling, she knows she would be feeling it now.  'Abrogail' feels it, therefore.  "That is something like what I might expect to remain in a society that had gone much much much too far in the direction of Good, after they'd taken something deep and real in human nature and flattened it down into a small sad remnant they deemed acceptable."