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[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 44 points 1 day ago

Killing billionaires save lives human lives and more than one for every billionaire if you're not at least trying to help kill billionaires you're a bad person

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is what has always bothered me about Batman and many other heroes who have had the same narrative arc: the idea that killing someone makes you as bad as the villains. It doesn't.

I understand the parable they're trying to convey: that unchecked power will eventually corrupt, and that by using the enemy's weapon, you could one day become them. But absolutes like that are silly.

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Its also just a problem that comics dont want to remove popular characters from the story, so it led to the revolving door of incarceration. And then we had the edgelord front that changed the villains from goofy pranksters to mass murderers.

There's a lot of issues to go around.

[-] binux@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's more specific to Batman's character than that. Because of his trauma, he'll basically do anything to avoid enacting the same suffering he dealt with when his parents were murdered. It's not necessarily about the morality of it and more about his overall obsessions.

[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 11 points 1 day ago

Its called slave morality the name kind of explains it right the pushing if it through the modern Americana mythology is kind of a civic religion it can all get fucked

[-] BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

I hate the videos like the one of some people harassing Peter Thiel on the street. Like wtf, why don't you do anything? The man is right there.

[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 12 points 1 day ago

Gotta give some respect to the standard bullying it's at least something.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Luigi gets mad respect because actually going first means your life is over.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

His life isn't over.

They still can't even prove he did it.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Best case scenario he's going to be in the public eye forever, getting marriage proposals and death threats.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world -2 points 23 hours ago

I agree but the guy Luigi allegedly killed was a multi-millionaire, not a billionaire.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Are you normally this pedantic? Or do you usually defend people siphoning wealth from the rest of us?

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Excuse me? How exactly was I defending him?

And yes, I am normally that pedantic.

[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 22 hours ago

The best kind of correct

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