Friday, April 4, 2008

All-Star Superman No. 10

Fair warning I am going to come of as a huge jackass, so please take into account that I am looking at this from a philosophical stand point not a personal one.
I don’t understand the fascination with dying children especially those dying of disease in a first world hospital. Disease is a fact of human life it happens, the greater injustice is people dying due to the lack of care or interest. Nations where the powerful elite live in mansions and the peasant class lives a meager existence often without the bare necessities of live. Superman has always trod a fine line between doing enough and doing to much and this feels like one of those times he crossed it, I understand why he would after all he’s a big softy and I love him for it. Its people’s reactions I just don’t understand. What makes the life of a child more important than the life of an adult, is there an age limit when death a despair stop being heartbreaking? The only answer I could think of is when someone has had most of their three score and ten and we can collectively say well they had a good run. With that being said let the recriminations begin.

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