>>81233585Fuuuuuck you for making me defend Garth Ennis.
Superman is pointing out there that there is a form of moral courage that is rarely, if ever required of Superman- the courage to make a judgement on an impossible decision. Even the tough quandaries- "Do I let Batman die to stop the tides of Apokolips" are relatively straightforward.
Superman himself doesn't ever really need to make those decisions. He has the power to do the right thing- to make the right thing possible, when it wouldn't be for anyone else.
Superman is an ideal. He holds the ideal, he makes the ideal possible.
In this, he recognizes that humans have a harder choice to make. And that if, as he is implicitly assuming here about Truman- the man is weighing those things, he understands that there is no right answer. He must make a moral decision that could never really be forced on Superman.
Superman never has to decide with imperfect information whose shores will be drenched with what blood.
Superman would never kill, himself (When written competently), and he definitely opposes death. But he isn't some moral crusader for total pacifism- he hasn't zipped around disarming soldiers everywhere, and he has been an ally of the military. He's not confused about what guns are for. And he knows that a decision like Truman's does take courage.
I think it's dumb as fuck that Ennis had superman pat his fucking shitty Punisher-alike self insert on the back- but what Superman says is overall on message.
