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The Marvel Civil War
alonelyargonaut:
Consider this. Think about it in terms of safety and real benifit for the heroes of the marvel universe and the other people populating that universe.
When one considers the real implications of the act, and the benifits the whole thing becomes alot less clear cut. Cause initiall I am all for Captain America's anti-registration faction. But then I have to look at it in terms of if I lived in the marvel universe and there were all these people with power enough to kill me be it by accident or by desire. The need for regulation or monitoring seems really logical. I mean we're talking about weapons here, some with more power than the bombs they dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On the flip side we also have to consider the safety and the privacy of the Superheroes. The fact that there are also supervillains who have those powers who wont register and who continue to put us at risk. Is it really worth it to jepordize the safety of those who watch over us? What is necessary and proper? Because in truth these heroes are in fact law breakers, vigilantes, with their own agenda and set of moral beliefs which don't always align to the beliefs and laws of the US. So it's up in the air gents.
Consider this as a person of the Marvel Universe. Where would you really stand?
TheLanyard:
Right but it's also sorta discrimination isn't it (haven't been able to follow the full story). I mean, that's like making all blind people and asians register for some public listing but letting everyone else live in normalcy. Who gets to draw the lines on stuff like that? Seems like it should have been voted on by the masses (I'm assuming it wasn't).
thepugs:
It always bothered me, the whole Civil War thing. I mean, it's cool, but things have just blown way out of proportion. Lots of people died in regards to mutant-related incidents in the Marvel Universe before, all of a sudden a bunch of kids dying in a freak accident calls for this giant split? Personally, I'm all against it.
alonelyargonaut:
Thelanyard: I agree with you about the discrimination thing mostly. I agree with you on the voted by the masses thing, but i disagree on comparing it to blindness. People are required to register handguns. that's a safety thing and a legal thing, and i think that better fits to what the situation is.
to thepugs: in terms of people dying before hand I think the marvel universe has reached a more politically minded stage. the idea of a Mutant/Superhuman registration act has been kicked around before (mostly in the late 80s early 90s) but that the world is reaching this convulsive and volatile stage of existence. racial discrimination wasn't outlawed with the first black hangings earlier this century, and it was just a collision of little things, and active enough people to get this sort of thing started. This makes sense with the social evolution into the information age. Death of kids is just something that really gets to people and so many went for such a dumb little mistake that it woke people up.
I have yet to vote one way or another as to where i stand on the whole act because the more i think about it the more and more vehmently i see each side of the argument. This becomes a really interesting hotbed of debate when it is looked at in terms of the real world, and the fact that these people have so much power (more so than any conventional weapon available to the public, and sometimes more so than those available to the government) that any little mistake or wrong look can set them off and put your life in jepordy.
Now in terms of the way it is being handled by Iron Man's faction in the comic book I disagree completely. What we are seeing is nothing short of a Mutant-Holocaust. Taking this sort of approach the writers took i think is meant to drive us towards the opposing faction headed by Captain America. While this is fine and dandy I would've preferred to see less of a vilanization of Iron Man and more legitimacy of his side.
MatticusPrime:
I'm anti-registration on the grounds of discrimination and violation of natural rights.
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