LogFAQs > #979360140

My point is that the trolley problem is a philosophical question entirely separate from a fictional story, and your question seems to imply you want me to use logic in terms of real world morality.

In the real world, one doesn't have to worry someone will always escape, hence my answers and considering the question from someone who would actually be living in that world; sure, the Joker has escaped in the past, but in the world of the comic that's not a given for the future. We just know it is as people reading a story who know a popular villain will be reused.

If you don't want to use fiction to think about the real morality behind capital punishment and insisl he will always escape because that's how it's gone in the stories, you apparently want the scenario to go exactly how the comics go.. that's actually boring because we know what would happen in the stories if Batman killed the Joker.

Then my answer is, "He's been killed before and always comes back anyway, what's the point?" Batman breaks his cardinal rule and the Joker comes back next week. That's what happens in this scenario if we base it not on a thought experiment but on what will happen in the comics.