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ScazarMeltex posted...

So that's always been the quandary of the Magneto character. Ultimately he wants what is best for mutant kind. He doesn't care about humanity, because humanity doesn't think of him as one of them.

It's what makes his Jewish heritage very important to the character. He lived through what the Nazis did. They were only a small portion of humanity but the thing is, no one cared. Not a single country on earth was fighting the Nazis because of what they were doing to the Jews. Countries, knowing what the Nazis were doing, turned away Jewish refugees. Sent them back to be slaughtered, because they didn't fucking care. So even though it was just a small portion of humanity committing the holocaust, the rest of the world shared responsibility because they did nothing.

If you are walking down the street and you see someone getting the shit kicked out of them and say "not my problem" and keep walking, you now share part of the responsibility for that beating. Neutrality only ever benefits the oppressor, not the person being oppressed.

So in the mind of a man like Magneto, with his experiences, you can see where he might be able to justify in his mind what he does. "These people are trying to do what the Nazis did and everyone else is going to let them, just like with the Nazis. What they are doing is benefitting my would be oppressor, so that gives them a share of the responsibility for their crimes. So why should I mitigate my force against my murderers to protect those who don't care if I get killed. Especially when they don't even think of me as human".

And I can't say that were I Magneto, I would feel any differently. It doesn't make him right, but it sure as fuck doesn't make him wrong in his reasoning.

Which is a fair point but ultimately while you can argue the parallels between reality and fiction there is still that big elephant in the room.

People in real life dont have Magnetos powers or really the powers of any mutants, which is kind of where a large issue lies here and why the fear and bigotry kinda works in both humans favors and mutants favors as a means of a never ending conflict between the two. (It is also not helped that the Marvel universe is set up on this hypocritical system of hating mutants where as other super powered beings dont see nearly if at all the same level of hate against them)

I think thats one thing DC kinda does right in a lot of their shows and media more so from the Justice League. Most of humanity and the leaders big concerns with the JL is more the fact they have the potential to go rouge and become an unstoppable force so they have to think of countermeasures to have a means to defend themselves.