bailey//rockruff⚪
matt murdock is kind of a piece of shit. idk why he hasn't told karen of all people what he's up to, and i'm really not sure why he pulls the self righteous "but i don't kill people" act when he's just fine beating people within an inch of their lives otherwise
really, frank castle was right; these assholes are just gonna continue hurting people until you put them down. sure, you can sometimes throw them in prison and they won't be a problem, but people like wilson fisk?
bailey//rockruff⚪
there are so many situations in superhero media where the hero lets someone live because killing anyone is supposedly wrong regardless of context, and then the person they let live goes and kills an additional dozen or so people before being put in prison again
so ultimately those deaths are on the heroes if they aren't willing to do what needs to be done in the first place
bailey//rockruff⚪
yes, there is blame on the evil person for being evil, but there is plenty of blame to go around for the supposedly good person who allows evil shits to keep hurting people because they're too scared to face the idea that maybe killing someone to prevent the deaths of others is perhaps maybe justified? and doesn't make you morally reprehensible?
bailey//rockruff⚪
matt had a chance to kill fisk. instead he decided to hand him over to the cops...who he knew were corrupt. so then fisk naturally escapes, additional people are hurt and killed, and event though fisk gets apprehended once again, i don't doubt he'll come back in a later show to continue to do harm.
bailey//rockruff⚪
i wouldn't trust the justice system to ever sentence someone to death but i sure as hell think superheroes have a responsibility for the lives that are taken if they don't end the lives of very obvious repeat offenders
bailey//rockruff⚪
anyway the whole rooftop situation was weird because like...frank was absolutely not gonna kill matt, idk why he had him tied up rather than just throwing him somewhere out of the way and forgetting about it.
if he was trying to change the ideology of daredevil to be more like his, forcing him to kill isn't really gonna do that, and neither of the targets were really desirable anyway?
bailey//rockruff⚪
it was a choice between some weak scared dude who was scum of the earth, but completely harmless. and frank, who has already proven he isn't gonna kill other vigilantes, so he's probably got a generally decent idea of who needs to be put in the ground and who actually deserves a chance.
and even if matt did kill frank, and thought it was just, matt would've taken way too long to become a suitable replacement to carry out frank's work. so the risk is too great
bailey//rockruff⚪
but i guess frank knew daredevil wasn't gonna kill him either. so what was the whole point except to prove that...frank castle likes to kill? i guess? it seemed extremely out of character and ultimately only served to reinforce whatever daredevil wants to think, though i'm not entirely familiar with the punisher so there could've been something else to it.
bailey//rockruff⚪
idk, superhero shows fall apart real quickly once you realise none of the shit in them makes sense except if you hold the very specific tired opinions of the status quo and see what you want to believe
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