Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-24398707-20140109123930/@comment-19765459-20140113162707

XXKibaXx wrote: We're not talking about the real world, we're talking about super humans, its fine for a real police officer or soldier to use force, but a person with super power (like a superhero) hasn't the right.

I can see what your saying and honestly sometimes i don't know if i'm more behind a Spide-man, or a Wolverine poin of view, and i think you need both.

And that doesn't make Scott/Spidey "weak", in fact Logan is the first to admit that he lacks the inner strength to be a true hero, that his path is the easier of the two, but also necessary.

And if you wanna quote comics, then checkout Peter Parker: Spider-Man # 47 when the Green Goblin threatened to kill all Spide-man's friends and family if he didn't fight him to death, Spidey told him to do it, it'll just strengthen his resolve, cause he'll never be like him, he'll never kill.

And to paraphrase that very story, "i don't have to kill to find justice DManCO, just being you that's life without parole". That's a really ridiculous argument.

Who else is supposed to deal with the problem? Granted, I do also disagree with Stiles' adamant refusal to tell his father about all of this for so long when he could prove it. But that is as much yet another continuity gap in the show's writing as anything else. After his father and Melissa coming within spitting distance of death at the claws of the Kanima and Matt with a gun, I thought that Stiles continued insistence on "protecting" his father by not telling him anything came across as idiotic.

However, the point stands: if werewolves are going to have their own separate society, then they are obliged to police it. Your argument contains a fundamental flaw there, in that you are saying that Scott (or any other super-powered being) cannot act as police, judge, executioner, but that they can act as accessories to the crimes by not doing anything to impede the criminal's activities!

Because that is what it is in the world of Muggle law. If you know that someone is a murderer, and you do nothing about it, do not report it to anyone, you just let the murderer go about their business based on your personal hope that they will stop, then you are also considered to be involved in their crimes! You bear some of the responsibility for the people that they hurt and/or kill!

This is not about being flawed, it is about irresponsibility. Because you are limiting moral action in only one direction. Scott could not punish. But you are essentially arguing that he had the right to allow a mass-murderer to walk away purely based on his own judgment. So yes, he did make a life-affecting decision on behalf of society as a whole, he just chose the one that transferred most of the risk to society.

Which was especially ironic since his next stop was to go dig out the Sheriff, who had actual legal jurisdiction in the area, and who probably should have at least been consulted before Scott, a 16 year-old, decided that a mass-murder could go free.