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[–] 51 points 3 months ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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