I watched a few animated batman and superman movies and I see that the formula hasn't changed, which is fine because the formula works. There is one part of the formula I don't like really though and that is the "I'm better than the bad guy because I refuse to kill anyone..."
There is a flaw with this mind set. The flaw simply being that if you don't kill off the confirmed non-rehabilitatable villain or super villain in this instance, then you are partially responsible for the deaths of anyone past the first time of jailing. So all those times Batman were to incarcerate the Joker and every time he got out and killed people, I'd say Batman is responsible for those deaths. He should just kill off the Joker. Lives are saved the threat is neutralized.
I don't understand why it is okay for the Joker to keep killing people off repeatedly, when does capitol punishment come into play? I would imagine immediately...
The point I am making here is that telling kids that we do not punish people properly for doing bad things is the wrong message to be sending.
If you wrong people intentionally, you should be punished accordingly.
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