I was recently asking myself this question when I compared some of my favorite comics heroes, on one hand Batman and on the other hand Flash, I said Flash but I could as well have said Superman for instance, I mean "Hope" in people. There is this episode in JLA that's entirely about The Flash and there is this scene where he is in the bar with Trickster, Wally is confident that he will turn himself in.. by himself,
something Batman would never do. We all know that Batman is ready for everything but why ? Is it because he is "only" human that he can't allow himself to trust people ? Is that why Flash and Superman do ? I mean the guy can fly, super speed and super hearing, sure he can allow himself to think that everybody is born morally good and just sometime we go wrong, but is that really so ? Do you think people are really afraid of Superman because he trust them too much ?
Not so long ago I read the Adventure Comics where Conner tries to understand Luthor, to understand if he is bad to the bone or not, I'm talking about the famous "Lex Giveth, Lex Taketh away" when he made her sister ill right after he cured her.
“Conner asks : Do you think it would've been different if Lex had grown up with your parents ?“
So what do you think ? Is it possible that we are all born morally right ? Rousseau used to say that society only corrupts us. When I say morally right I'm thinking "boy scout" right, like the Cap' or Superman who for me are the incarnation of the people who do good. Kant define right (correct me if I'm wrong) by saying that if you do something to someone, you must be ready that somebody else could do it to you and you should accept it. So what do you think ?
Sources : The episode is Flash and Substance, It's the fifth episode of the fifth season of the Justice League TV Show; The first scan is from the seventh issue of Batman/Superman New 52, finally Adventure Comics Issue 1 (October 2009); ”Lex giveth, Lex Taketh Away“ is the sixth issue of the same series.
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