>>78898669That's literally one of the main points about this series.
You see Dream, Delirium, Destruction, even Death, and you project some human characteristics onto them because they're drawn anthropomorphically. You even see the positive vulnerability of Delirium. But at the end of the day, they're concepts; their world is so different from ours that it's impossible for us to meaningfully understand them. It's not even entirely clear that the Endless control their particular spheres, versus just being an embodiment of the inherent force underlying their sphere.
Nobody "deserves" death, "deserves" madness, "deserves" war, "deserves" to dream. these things happen and it is beyond our ken to stop them. This is one of the most brilliant things about Sandman, IMO; it mostly avoids portraying the endless as good or bad. They are. The least of them is so impossibly complex and powerful as compared to a human as to make all discussion of morality or any other human concept meaningless.
Dream, Destruction, Desire and Delirium are portrayed as more sentimental to human concerns and foibles, because their spheres have more to do with the human world, but at the end of the day even Dream understands that the human realm is fundamentally more limited than that of the endless or even Hell. The "point" is that our lives are ultimately subordinate to a vast set of complex systems beyond our reckoning, whether that be God, the Endless, or quantum physics.
Thanks for reading my autism.
