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[batricide]

You know, I've been at this a long time, and the fact that so-called heroes are incapable of basic pattern recognition blows my mind.

[ Damian clicks his tongue, a sharp little tt. Thanks to a brush with some Red Kryptonite he's not being shy about his utter disdain for your average kind of superheroing. ]

How many times does someone have to let monsters go free to service their own conscience and keep this little heroc farce going before they're just as culpable for their crimes? Throw them in the same prison they just busted out of, that's basically just a slap on the wrist. Why is anyone surprised when they just turn around and start killing agan? Anybody could solve the problem at the root, but they don't because that'd just kill their little ego trip.

Really, if you ask me? Some people just deserve to die.

Comments

[dragony]

Metaphor. But, that doesn't exclude the possibility of a literal interpretation.

I can't say anything to where you're from, of course, but most of our problems here come from... well, the people here on Earth. Even the world-destroyer is only gaining power because of human intervention.

[hatestrashcans]

Yeah, you never know. Things can be weird.

Oh, humans are great at fucking things up, no question. We just don't have a monopoly.

[dragony]

I'm not saying we do.

I'm only saying, it's a shitty thing to look at the worst of humanity, or even the mediocre-bad of humanity, and say, "oh, that makes them monsters."

Monsters exist, you know. And most of them are kinder than humans, anyway.

[hatestrashcans]

Nah, I get it. Meeting other species sort of has made us do a lot of re-evaluating on how we talk about things.

So same here, right?

I actually wasn't joking about the language guide, though. If this guy is new, he might not know there are monsters here that exist; some timelines probably don't have them. I'm not saying it's cool, just saying letting people know might be good.

[dragony]

... I did let him know. By telling him to aim his ire correctly. With the way he talks, I don't think he'd know that to do with anything less indelicate.

[hatestrashcans]

Yeah, fair.

Guess I just meant pre-emptively. Then you guys don't have to have it thrust in your face, and newbs don't have to deal with perfectly reasonable defensiveness when they're already probably off-balance, you know?

[dragony]

Explaining things in one announcement like that, on this forum, almost never works. Believe me, new people almost never scroll back more than a month, and then get offended that "nobody told them" about the sixteen running crises we're still dealing with.

Besides. Does this guy really seem like the type? To go through an entire archive before popping off?

[hatestrashcans]

Okay, that's a fair point.