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Originally Posted by Marleinie
Say hypothetically a super hero with all the strength and abilities as Superman existed but was for the side of good. However instead of adhering to any laws he unilaterally went around to all the various bad guys in our world killing or threatening them to change or else would that be morally okay? Like say he busted into the supreme leader Islamic countries, North Korea, other dictatorships etc. and said "Either you change your ways and make everyone free and grant rights to all for everyone or I will incinerate you with my eye beams.
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A large fraction of the world's population thinks that such a superhero did or does exist, though they have been fighting and killing each other over these beliefs for thousands of years. That one square mile of land - Holy Land - has been the epicenter of some of the worst and fiercest wars for two millennia. Physically, there is nothing extraordinary there - the soil is ordinary, the water is ordinary, etc. but yet all the followers of Abraham, three millennia after him, have split up but they all think that they have divine reasons to possess that particular geographical area. And they kill each other over it. It seems even after millennia, they still have not learned to quit fighting over that land. It's still happening....
I am inclined to think that the same thing would happen with your hypothesized "superhero". People would be killing each other over whatever area this superhero was associated with.
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