Oops. Talk about messed up! They could have saved him and prevented the whole thing! Honor codes are double edged swords more often than not, and theirs is certainly no different. It doesn’t only matter the choices you make, but also WHY you make them, and how you live with them.
It seems like the more Justice Torren talks, the deeper he’s digging a hole for himself. Telling Dynagirl her boyfriend could have lived…prolly not the wisest of calls.
That’s kinda morbid actually. She’s mad at them because she cannot comprehend Ben butchering all those people of his own volition.
But would Ben have gone on his killing spree had his doctor not, incorrectly apparently, diagnosed him with terminal cancer? How would his choices have been different? And if the Justices were watching, why did they not intervene in that one possibly fatal mistake? Was it because the very potential for Ben to go apeshit was there – did they want to see how he would react?
All parties are in the wrong here, but kinda right too. They all need a good smack upside the head and sort this out over dominoes and tea. Cause tea fixes everything, dammit.
Yeah, no doubt about it, there’s blame enough to go all the way around. I’ve actually considered the moral stance of the Justice Corps and by extension their alien benefactors, and it’s definitely something different to what we humans would most often consider the right way. But then you look at it from their perspective and they’ve got a lot at stake turning genetically altered folks loose with the power to crack worlds and tasking them with protecting and serving. Looking at our own world the folks we ask to act in this capacity, like police and such, sometimes fall off the right path as well, you know? So the fail-safe is not only something they built in as a type of breaker or fuse if you will, but also a pretty profound test for each of their membership. If a Justice passes he gets raised to the next level. If he doesn’t…well they don’t much have to worry about him after that.
That’s my take, for what it’s worth. For all his nobility, Ben failed a crucial test. Better to have him do it now, when he can just kill a hundred or so (or was it more) people than when he has the power to annihilate entire planets at once. Looking at it that way, it’s hard to fault the Justices. Ben failed the Spider-man test: he didn’t live up to his true responsibility, which was to everyone on the planet, villains included,not just Kerry.
Also, for a bit of irony: if Ben had evolved, would Kerry would’ve lost him anyway? after all, from what’s being said, I’d guess he would’ve moved up an a new justice would’ve been set up on earth to replace him.