Today I watched the Poison Ivy episode of Batman The Animated Series; Pretty Poison. And I gotta say, Ivy was right.
Harvey Dent spearheaded a project to use Wayne Foundation funds to turn a field of wildflowers into a penitentiary. The twist: That field contained the last surviving specimens of the Wild Thorny Rose. Poison Ivy, a chemical botanist, saves the last rose and uses it for revenge. She kisses Harvey with a poison made from the rose on her lips. Batman grabs a sample and tried to synthesise an antidote, but doing so requires a sample of the origin of the toxin: the wild thorny rose, extinct. So he goes and fights Poison Ivy for the antidote and saves Harvey.
But I think Harvey is the bad guy here. He destroyed a piece of nature to build a prison. And he didn’t even conduct an environmental survey to look for ecological damage first! If he’d have hired Ivy, she could have warned him about the rose, and he could have come up with a plan to save it. Also, prisons are bad! Harvey is the district attorney, he’s part of the power structure. And he has Bruce Wayne’s money behind him. Ivy had nowhere to turn for justice other than vigilantism. I stand with Ivy.
Almost no one says murder is the worst crime. (There’s a reason murderers aren’t as scared of their fellow prisoners as child molesters.) The person above is saying murder is still murder, regardless of justification, which is true. However, many, if not most, people will say there are circumstances which justify murder. Not to make it not murder, just make it ethically acceptable.
murder is murder, the implication of the post was that there was no justifying it. but that is not the popular opinion.