User blog comment:Delanoagius/heroes killing ????/@comment-1038387-20130907120020/@comment-1038387-20130907131129

Heroes can kill. It's just a matter of where to put the line. When is a criminal so bad he has forfeited his life? That's basically what Red Hood was all about - kill people like Joker, but not the ones that can still be "saved". If a criminal with Joker's rap sheet and mental history were alive on this world, everyone, even the most staunch anti-capital punishment activist, would agree that some dogs just need to be put down.

When Wonder Woman killed Maxwell Lord, Lord was mind controlling Superman. She lassooed him, and he explained the only way to stop the control was to kill Lord. She did. She chose killing over sacrificing a friend and potentially the world. Superman didn't like it, in his deluded mind there may have been another way.

Green Lanterns killed many, not just when Hal was mad with grief possessed by Parallax. Many have killed in revenge, or grief. Green Arrow and Arsenal were mad with grief, but Green Arrow has killed before that.

Huntress killed people. Captain Atom killed people. Atom Smasher killed people. Peacemaker killed people. Manhunter killed people. Midnighter killed people.

Heroes not killing is a bit of a copout. Sure, they don't have to riddle every jaywalker with bullets, but in a world where prisons have a revolving door, do you really think allowing mass murdering psychopaths to "answer for their crimes" for the umpteenth is setting a good example?

The comic book world is so different from our own, can we really apply our sense of morality on it?