>>101170888Huh. I thought you were trolling, but you actually have a solid point.
>>101163036>>101163051Personally, I can't argue one way or another since I haven't actually read the original comic. But going off of what I can glean from these pages, this "Kang" fellow isn't just "a soldier fighting for a power structure." He's fighting for HIS power structure.
It's the difference between fighting a random German soldier who was drafted into the Nazi army, vs. going mano-a-mano with Adolf Hitler himself.
You could argue that fighting in either case is wrong. And who knows, perhaps you'd be right. When you get down to it, all war is crime.
But sometimes, you don't really have a choice. If you never enter conflict, you will be ruled by the conflict-starters. If you never stand for anything, people will push you around.
"Batman's code" doesn't work in real life. Sometimes, we kill killers in order to prevent killing. Sometimes, we take by force from those who take by force, so that stolen goods can be returned.
And these legalized crimes might make us hypocrites. They don't prove that killing or stealing is wrong. But sometimes, we have to break rules in order to protect them.
And though we might invent terms like "honor", "glory" or "justice" to pretend our crimes aren't crimes, there isn't any "honor" or "righteousness" on any side of any conflict. It's all just blood, death, and ashes.
That's kind of Cap's point here. Kang's talk of "honor", means nothing. And his silence speaks volumes at the end when he is too battered to talk, because his praise of violence is ended by violence. His empty words cannot save him.
