GreenBeard

This is an explicit statement of intent to commit genocide. His entire administration is now party to war crimes. He's crossed a line that cannot be uncrossed.

Openly committing genocide

Makes sense that they hate children. It must really scare them, with the constant reminder that some day their reign of terror will end and they will be outlasted.

The word professional is so ambiguous as to be effectively meaningless, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to its original definition.

No one but the most shallow and superficial among us cares what you're wearing. Thinking a suit does anything but make you look self-important and pretentious is an anachronism.

"I don't think I've ever heard..." friend, you literally live in an information silo. Do you speak Spanish? Because you probably aren't hearing anything about Spain if you don't. Do you follow any British media? Because they're not coming to an American forum to bitch about Britain. You probably don't care enough to even notice if someone was talking about another country, so how would you hear anything?

What's uniquely American is making your internal drama everyone else's problem.

I ask myself the same question every time a company raises its prices.

You killed a coral reef because you couldn't figure out how to create headers and footers? No, there's no AI integrated Open Source word processor.

Iron Man and Batman can only do what they do because they have the time and access to resources to do it. Guardian from Alpha Flight, for example would be something like "Working Class Ironman." Common engineer who found out the mining suit he was building was going to be sold off to the military so he stole the prototype and became a superhero. He's kind of an "Iron Man's brain, Captain America's heart" kind of character, so if you wanted the non-rich Iron Man, it exists, it's just not Tony Stark. Tony needs to be rich or he's not Tony Stark.

Same with Batman. The Shadow is a former soldier who uses stealth, martial arts and magic tricks to fight crime. But he's not Bruce Wayne because being a billionaire playboy is what makes Batman possible.

Why recharacterize heroes with totally new backstories when the not-rich version is already a different superhero.

And now you're completely characterizing my statements and lying to make yourself feel better. Good day.

I mean if your go to is to personally attack anyone who disagrees with you I don't know why anyone would bother to have a serious discussion with you, but for the cheap seats I'll try.

Yes, Criminal Psychopaths can, in certain circumstances be good people, other than the fact that they brutally kill some people. No mass murderer has ever been arrested that their neighbours weren't standing there saying "but he was such a nice guy!" That doesn't mean I don't think they should be dealt with harshly, but the reality is, there are people who are good husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, and friends who also do absolutely monstrous things when no one else is looking. While we're at it, there's no such thing as someone who has never harmed anyone. We've all done things that hurt people, and no, just apologizing doesn't make it all go away. Some harms are more serious than others but no one is blameless. There are absolutely people who tend more toward good, and some that tend more toward bad, but I've also watched "good" people rationalize and try to justify some absolutely wild levels of cruelty under the wrong circumstances.

Look, I get it, you've been through some shit. I've been there and the idea that some people are good and some people are bad and as long as you find the good people you'll be safe is really comforting. Unfortunately it's not true. There's no such thing as someone who is always cartoonishly evil, and there is no one who is perfectly safe, not even you.

There are no objectively good and bad people. Never have been, never will be. Every one of us is a grab bag of contradictions. Objectively good people are not rare, they're fictional. If you seriously look under the surface, we're all both monsters and angels on some level. Some of us just have better self-control and/or fewer opportunities to be actively transgressive.

As others have pointed out, there's no "black-and-white" (if you'll pardon the irony) way of categorizing people. Bad or good people are fictional. Even the best of us have ugly parts to how we behave, and otherwise terrible people can show surprising compassion. Our values can conflict and in the moment we chose to do something wildly out of character, or indulge in impulses we didn't even realize we had.

In the real world there are no absolute heroes or villains. A man who gave his boots to a homeless man one moment, could beat another to death a few months later. Human beings are wildly inconsistent.