hooray for things written in a time period where people actually gave a damn about morals and authority... 1930s ho~ nowadays we're so desencistised and disenfranchised we poke around at this stupid shit and call it 'wrong' when really its not, we're the ones all twisted and screwed up because of the world we live in, heroes live in an idealized world based on a time where morals were more black and white, where people gave a damn about their country and helping others, now we're all paranoid, cynical, and find more value in a 50$ bill then the person sitting next to us... we just don't give a damn, judging superheroes that DO give a damn and try doing the 'right thing' based on their original context and idealized world is a silly, silly thing to do...
we're all 'too smart' in this age and generation, we don't appreciate something as is, no we poke and pick at it, and while i'm normally all for that, it just kinda annoys me when trying to apply 'reality' to something that is obviously 'idealized', theory =/= reality, any scientist or engineer knows this, they do not mix, i don't care how much comics lately have been trying to be 'real' and 'gritty' to get new readers, to think they will EVER touch the bounds of reality, let alone something like using 'real' physics or logic is just silly...
comics, and other medium like them that tell a story about whoever supposed to teach us right from wrong in the latest interesting way, are effectively just the new bible, in a hundred years there will be the Kryptonian religion, where Kal'el has his apsotles, Batman the doubter, WonderWoman the optimist (*laughs whole heartedly*) and etc. etc. with his extended jesus-esque family and in 300 years people will be claiming to be the 'Last True Son of Krypton' and eventually we'll have stupid things like people trying to actually PROVE it not remembering it was all just a comic/book meant to give us moral guidance...
seriously, we all KNOW 'killing is bad', but who here actually believes that? would actually go out of their damn way to NOT kill someone who threatened them? who wouldn't give a damn when they actually did and claim it was for the 'good of all'? people don't care about intent, they care about a spectacle... Superman is the ultimate boyscout, always has been, always will be, it is part of the 'flaw' of his character to be this perfect human ideal, thus the appeal of totally fucking that nowadays just to see how much it will make him crack... and to think it wouldn't 'change' him is silly, it would, stuff like that always does no matter how people act or claim or think, its why the whole 'slippery slope' gambit is a real and often overused thing with alternate universes, The Justice Lords, Red Son, so on and so on...
Batman is fucking crazy, WonderWoman really has no valid reason for NOT killing everyone, same as every Alien member of the Justice League, they're not FROM Earth and often with greater powers and tech, why do they care? especially those from supposed 'warrior races' like the Thanigarians or the Tamaranians? why aren't Hawkgirl and Starfire just going around KILLING EVERYONE? because from what we've learned of their cultures, that's totally fine? Superman, even if he's Kryptonian, at least makes some sense since he was raised in perfect USA, where everyone knows everyone and its all morally right ._.
i mean part of Huntress' baggage as a character is that she ACTUALLY KILLED A MOBSTER, at least in the old stuff, and they kept ripping her on that and pretty much using her as the example of 'when heroes do wrong' etc. etc. etc. the league didn't want her for the bad PR? screw that she's damn effective, no... you killed some normal evil human being... and that's bad... ._.
its all really... really silly when you think about it... i'm going to stop before i get into WHY THE HELL DOES RAVEN GIVE A DAMN?! want a morality case? there!! daughter of the intergalactic devil not even raised on earth... WHY THE HELL DOES SHE CARE?! heroes are heroes because they, theoretically, don't do what's 'easy'... that's the basic gist of it... killing is easy, but wrong, so they don't intentionally... because that's 'bad'...