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Nowhere( in response to your post ) did anyone say murder was an acceptable response, just that if you murder someone , nobody is charging you with a violation of free speech because that would be nonsensical.

And the only reason they had to say that much is because your argument was incorrect.

If you want to argue proportional response, have at it, but you didn't, you argued :

no because that would be murder

Murder isn't a violation of the US definition of free speech, unless the government does the murdering.

Still a crime, but not a constitutional free speech violation.

There may be fallacies in there that I haven't spotted and there is certainly subjectivism and relativism to a degree, but there is no whataboutism or true Scotsman.

Lex as a character has gone through this same cycle a few times in both the comics and the animated series, he's the big had one day and a reluctant team member the next.

Laundering mass murderers is also common. That you don't approve is clear.

I wasnt trying to say a team up was a good story, only that it was possible to make it narratively feasible with the given personality we've seen so far.

A signal to whom ? Genuine question.

I agree, as a full-throttle textbook narcissist he would think it was be a problem because he couldn't control him.

An opportunity to gain partial influence might be a reasonable stepping stone until he can get full control (or remove him entirely).

I'm not sure it's that far fetched an approach for someone so intelligent.

It might not be the story they go with, but it's not implausible to fit his current personality in with a team up.

I’m sick of the good guys having to compromise and give in to literal war criminals.

I agree that with that kind of power, working within the bounds of corrupt/compromised systems is stupid so I'm interested to see what you think is a viable alternative.

I'm pretty sure a few of them have been done as actual comic runs.

Media does not need to portray war criminals as allies of good. They are not.

Firstly , this is a fictional space, so they can pretty much do what they want, whether or not that's something you enjoy is a different matter.

Secondly , as a premise it's really *really hard to portray absolute goodness to the satisfaction of everyone because good and evil are subjective constructs, unless you're a religious fundamentalist i suppose, then reason doesn't generally apply in any meaningful way.

A "one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter" or a "trolley problem" kind of subjective.

Also i'd suspect that to at least a few of the countries in this fictional setting, superman is a war criminal of the highest order, it might not be the fictional US but other fictional countries exist, with their own laws.

If you are using "War Criminal" as a benchmark you are using the definitions of the same systems of which "Boravia" is a part.

Evil is easier in general because there are common things that people will mostly agree on, but even then it's hard to get something objectively evil (outside of supernatural entities i suppose).

A fictional space is a perfect place to try though precisely because it isn't bound by as much realism.

That's the standard , "we can't track you on a VPN" error as well fwiw.

Because he was envious and afraid humans would be irrelevant/replaced.

If a bigger threat shows up that makes superman just as much a chump as the rest of humanity, I'd imagine this lex would absolutely step in to help out, even if only to prove his continued relevance and give a big fuck you.

This superman, giving zero fucks about lex's inferiority complex, would accept the help to get the job done.

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There is also the concept of "positive" grooming, for instance a child given specific education and resources to provide an advantage in something like politics could be said to be being "groomed" for politics or leadership.

I'd say the idea of grooming is more intentional than just regular child-raising, but that might be subjective.

As i said though, the current common usage is almost always negative and sexual in nature, it's just not a requirement.

Not a statement for or against your argument.

But grooming doesn't have to be sexual.

It is, frequently, but it's not a requirement.

For example, any of the trope recruiters that target children for military service in any of the bullshit nationalist wars (in anime of course, IRL military recruiters would never be so unethical)

It's doesnt have to work, it just has to be convincing enough to get the bean counters and/or incompetent/sociopathic upper management to buy in to the idea that they can save money.

Same as always, if the shitstorm created by a decision isn't immediately devastating or can be incontrovertibly tied to said decision then that's just BAU.

but the time the shitshow starts playing the preroll trailers the golden parachutes and bonuses have been claimed.

For them, this isn't broken, this is how the game works.

I like to think of it as a large list of granular, contextual rpg stats.

"You get an average 6 for concentration while in a quiet room between 15-20 deg c. Assuming you've not taken more than 10 points of psychic damage in the last 3 hours and are well rested."

They are, in theory, comparing your scores in a set of somewhat defined contexts to see if , overall, it's causing you problems that might be helped in someway by a treatment that has worked for other people who have similar scores in the same set of criteria.

That sentence being so full of caveats is why I think diagnosis is hard for this sort of thing.

That's a nice one