User blog comment:Sokatsui/Artemis' Future?/@comment-5165918-20121021132701/@comment-34954086-20121023005049

Five years where her persona has been mind raping people since Image. Aqualad was essentially doing it for almost as long via his military training, the thing though he's a soldier, he would allow it to go on indefinately because he'd have the same mindset.

I honestly do not see how age has anything to do with what we should expect from them, if anything younger should be better for what is required to stop it, a firm sense of right and wrong. Age degrades that, an innocent kid could tell you that blasting your friend with the equivalent of a bazooka from your mind at point blank range is wrong and she should stop, someone older though, you get them seeing her side to the argument, that villains deserve it.

Either way, Aqualad failed in that respect just as much as Dick.