>>106632162>He had to. She couldn't control her power and liquefied her mother.BL2 already addressed this when he was screaming about how he HAD to lock her up. Nobody disagrees with that.
The problem comes, as pointed out by Lillith I think during the Angel fight, is that he didn't have to commit all that mass murder that came after ensuring her security. Sure, the megacorps have zero rules and do whatever the fuck they want and people die working for them by the billions so we could argue that up to the point where Jack took over the company, we could say it was all for Angel. But in general, he had zero justification to start the events of BL1, to cover the planet in Eridium, to take over the planet for Eridium mining operations, to go on a mass-murdering rampage that culminated in him trying to unlock the Warrior to glass the planet for him. Even if striking rich with Eridium is what got him the company in the first place.
In Pre-Sequel, you see that he was already a lost psychopath. When he killed the Meriff, he didn't do it out of some undisciplined anger, he did it because he really wanted to and enjoyed it. And he got more and more brutal as you went on. He justified his acts as "everybody's going to die, ends justifies the means" but those were just empty words he used to justify being a dick. Gearbox probably meant for it to be some tragic descent of a hero a la Macbeth or some shit but he was long gone since the beginning as the other Anon said.
tl;dr - Nobody disagrees that Angel might have needed being locked up. It's that he used Angel like a tool to be used and abused. He had other options, he chose the one that made him rich at her expense.
