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Revenge is selfcentered, probably immoral and unlawful, this is your warning. You have been warned.
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An eye for an eye and the world goes blind
It's "leaves the whole world blind", but that notably doesnt apply to murderers, dictators, and other objectively bad people.
I get what you mean, although there's no such thing as objectively bad people. What is bad depends on culture.
I can name a few dozen that make their way through the news cycle with war crimes and crimes against humanity weekly.
Even if i was less woke, its pretty obvious that stealing millions of dollars just to hoard it is objectively bad
I used to think this was true; that evil was always contextual.
Now I see there are absolutely people who are ontologically evil.
so if someone kills 10'000 people that's.. maybe fine depending on your culture?
So you're pro death penalty then?
Im anti death penalty almost exclusively because its cheaper for tax payers to keep a prisoner for life than it is to kill them. I also dont trust the state to dish out punishments with our fucked legal system.
I do believe, for example, the super hero "i never kill" trope is incredibly misguided and pretty much objectively stupid, especially in the case of Batman, but thats my rampant (formally diagnosed) autism
I concur.
That last bit frustrates me to no end in various media. It’s part of why I hate Marvel films. You have these people already dishing out vigilante justice but killing the mass murderer/genocidal maniac is “lowering oneself to their level?” I’m sorry but at that point it’s your duty, lest you’re complicit in their next genocide.
Ugh.
i've been reading a webnovel called "Path of the deathless" and it's very gratifying to have the protagonist go "no i don't care that 'you're the only person who can run this empire', you obviously need to die lmao, you're a remorseless slaver and your empire is built on suffering. Now, please take a step to the side so i can pulp you without hurting the innocent people, thank you!"
Batman is brutal, and IRL most of his victims would end up with varying amounts of brain damage.
Many of them would die, really, some in the spot even. A single punch in the face is enough to kill.
i think that's part of the point with batman. at the end of the day hes a damaged dude obsessed with his own moral code no matter what damage it causes to everything around him
Yeah, when someone pokes out your eye, instead of poking out their eye you should just let that person poke your other eye out. Because that way at least you won't both be blind! See?
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Yes, but murdering master swordsmiths to ensure no one ever has a better sword than you just makes vengeful sons of swordsmiths.