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Unread 07-29-2010, 03:06 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants View Post
Here's the thing: The only reason that preventative retributive justices works in comics is because we can divide people in good and evil people. What's the difference? Evil people kill people. Goodpeople don't.
If good people can kill people, hoshit you are in the real world- good people aren't universally good, evil people aren't universally evil, and thus villains can be cured.
Well technically there's all kinds of evil doods who never killed anyone and then gotten beaten up so yeah. Oh and it's worse to be in comics land because then you're saying Well, it's ok for me to send this guy to the same jail he just broke out of after killing forty people and now that I've done that I better help clean up this fifty people. That's incompetence.

Also also. Villains can't be 'cured.' People can choose to change but they're not cured because that would imply they're forced to be good. Superman lobotomizing them in the Justice Lord dimension is a cure.
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There are no features that I possess, physical, mental or social in me, that would ground this decision of yours except in the most horrible of tastes.
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