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So these are the only two options?
US prisons are nightmare fuel. And law enforcement officers routinely kill suspects who are neither armed nor resisting.
It does raise questions of why villains exist, except as something that heroes can punch without thinking about it.
for spiderman and most super heroes yes that is the only option they can't exactly afford to run their own private secret prison focused on rehabilitation so the only other option is let them go blow up more hospitals cause oh well us prison bad yeah but so is dangling a bus of school kids off a bridge
That is a seriously dark position, but I get it. Very much the way that the only solution we have for people considering suicide is to lock them up in an institution where they have a 30%+ chance of being abused by the staff (orderlies like to get handsy and nurses like to get everyone on tranquilizers so they're not too much trouble). So do we leave our despairing friends on their own to kill themselves, or send them to a facility that could actually be living Hell.
Actually, seeing Spidey confront such matters would be a real treat, and might drive him to look towards underground reform and start a mutual aid program. But that's not as fun as seeing him punch Vulture in the face, is it?
In the meantime, we don't have many hospitals getting blown up, or school busses dangling off bridges, IRL. They have to make that stuff up to justify that someone needs punching. It's like the ticking time bomb scenario (would you torture someone who knew how to defuse a city-busting bomb?) And those scenarios (which appeared in 24 Hours ) were used to justify torture during the War on Terror. And the US still tortures to this day.
This is propaganda in action, especially if it's convincing you the monsters out there are ones that blow up schools rather than the ones that just make sure they will have no choice but to join the army the day they age out of high-school.