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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5494185" data-attributes="member: 19675">No, what I said was:Tried, yes- but in the former, the shot never hit him because of the intervention of others, ergo it cannot be evidence of his superhuman-ness.  In the second, he took cover- as any human might- and survived.  Had he survived without taking cover, you might have an argument in your favor.  But what he did was no more remarkable than a bomb-squad tech surviving an unplanned detonation in his bomb-suit.Remember, the point was whether he was or was not superhuman.  Not being shot is no evidence at all.  Surviving an explosion from which he took cover is at best ambiguous.No, I'm not.The problem lies in your second point- he survived the threats, but he did so by mundane reasons.Look at the history of some of the RW's leaders and see just how many shootings and bombings they've survived.  Are they superhuman for doing so?  Absolutely not.  Some of the attempts were thwarted by intervention- as the sniper attack on Bats was.  Mubarek, for instance, survived 6 attempts, including an assault by multiple AK-47 wielding assailants.Some people have survived bombings by being protected within bomb resistant areas or just the bodies of others, like the Iraqui journalist Muaid Lami who survived an explosion that killed 5 people next to him with relatively minor chest and arm wounds.  Again, this is mundane...as in, not supernatural or superhuman.And as for your 3rd point, yes, they don't count because they could be done by anyone.  If literally anyone can do it, then it isn't evidence of being superhuman.  It isn't evidence of anything at all.</blockquote>

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