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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It should be noted that Batman's no killing rule is a later addition to the character, so early comics are cheating a bit.

I think it says a lot about the original character concept and his position as a millionaire/billionaire regardless.

[-] doctortran@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see you're just going to deliberately leave out the context.

That wasn't a homeless person, it was a patient at the asylum. Hugo Strange had injected him and 4 others with grown hormone that turned them into mindless, rage filled monsters, and there was no cure. It's needlessly violent and careless but that is in no way "Batman lynching a homeless man"

I don't know what it is with people on Lemmy trying to dishonesty reframe the legacy of that character just because he's wealthy. It's so petty and pointless.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

1: Guess where 40's asylums got a lot of their patients. Guess what happened to most of them if they did get released.

2: There was a cure, Batman himself made it in the comic.

3: Do you think being a victim of a medical experiment makes it better?

Nice "real context," simp.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Huh, that is very interesting

Also fwiw, by the end of year of writing, the batman writers settled on his "no killing" rule.

[-] colderr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh, it's even worse in full context.

[-] doctortran@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Bullshit. The full context makes it significantly better because it reveals that isn't just some random homeless man.

No, you just suck and think victims and the mentally ill deserve death.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world -2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Jesus christ, it's a comic book from the 40s.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

...

Do you think morality was invented in 2001?

Do you think that his comment doesn't portray his values?

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago

I think youre reading too much into a cartoon character and the discussion around it.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think you're afflicted with Hugo Strange's serum.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Morality is not objective. Welcome to differing values based on time frames, im sure its quite frightening for you.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"From my point of view, billionaires should lynch the impoverished mentally ill and victims of medical experimentation, how dare you take this as a value statement."

Go fuck yourself.

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