Or you can just do things right the first time, and if you do have to kill, it's genuinely the absolute last resort, which the Legion does allow for.
[Rich takes a deep breath because everyone's driving him nuts, and even Robbie's not excluded from that. He agrees with him, but he also thinks his friend isn't making the right arguments. He's been a soldier, he understands "eliminate the threat" being the objective, and his own body count is staggering.]
I know it seems impossible, but you're a superhero now. That's our job, doing the impossible, and those of use that do this for a living, as long as we've got the right team at our backs, we handle situations like this three times before breakfast. With just a handful of fellow Novas, I've cleared a supervillain hostage situation in 1.86 seconds. No civilian casualities, no villain casualities. With teams that moved slower, and back when I was less powerful myself, it took a longer time, but we never had to kill a villain to save all the hostages.
I've been a soldier. I know where it is you're all coming from on this. In war, elimination of the threat is an ultimate goal. But we're not soldiers here, we're superhero law enforcement. Maintaining the public's trust is essential to the job.
Instead of wasting time thinking up ways to weasel around the consequences for doing this wrong, focus on what has to be done to do the job right, and start trusting that you have the tools and powers to actually pull it off.
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[Rich takes a deep breath because everyone's driving him nuts, and even Robbie's not excluded from that. He agrees with him, but he also thinks his friend isn't making the right arguments. He's been a soldier, he understands "eliminate the threat" being the objective, and his own body count is staggering.]
I know it seems impossible, but you're a superhero now. That's our job, doing the impossible, and those of use that do this for a living, as long as we've got the right team at our backs, we handle situations like this three times before breakfast. With just a handful of fellow Novas, I've cleared a supervillain hostage situation in 1.86 seconds. No civilian casualities, no villain casualities. With teams that moved slower, and back when I was less powerful myself, it took a longer time, but we never had to kill a villain to save all the hostages.
I've been a soldier. I know where it is you're all coming from on this. In war, elimination of the threat is an ultimate goal. But we're not soldiers here, we're superhero law enforcement. Maintaining the public's trust is essential to the job.
Instead of wasting time thinking up ways to weasel around the consequences for doing this wrong, focus on what has to be done to do the job right, and start trusting that you have the tools and powers to actually pull it off.