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<blockquote data-quote="ppaladin123" data-source="post: 4701615" data-attributes="member: 60923">As an aside, Rorschach clearly has problems with homosexual activity, drug use and prostitution. It's not a matter of simple personal preference; he views them as examples of the pervasive corruption that plagues modern society and favors (violent) action to stamp them out.&nbsp; As such he doesn't fit the mold of the typical libertarian, &quot;live-and-let-live,&quot; (but you'll get no help from me) type.I view him as an reactionary authoritarian figure. He has extreme disdain for the current legal code because he thinks it has become soft and useless, another causality of society's downward spiral into decadence. He attempts to remedy this by dispensing justice when legal authorities shirk their duty to punish the corrupt. Under a particularly draconian legal regime I can imagine him as a content law-abiding citizen.That doesn't fit neatly into the law/chaos divide. He doesn't fit neatly into a good/evil framework either (the only thing we can say he is that he is a deontologist and not a consequentialist). The character is meant to be morally ambiguous and to leave readers ambivalent about his behavior. The correct answer to the question, &quot;is Rorschach lawful or chaotic?&quot; may be, &quot;yes.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ppaladin123, post: 4701615, member: 60923"] As an aside, Rorschach clearly has problems with homosexual activity, drug use and prostitution. It's not a matter of simple personal preference; he views them as examples of the pervasive corruption that plagues modern society and favors (violent) action to stamp them out. As such he doesn't fit the mold of the typical libertarian, "live-and-let-live," (but you'll get no help from me) type. I view him as an reactionary authoritarian figure. He has extreme disdain for the current legal code because he thinks it has become soft and useless, another causality of society's downward spiral into decadence. He attempts to remedy this by dispensing justice when legal authorities shirk their duty to punish the corrupt. Under a particularly draconian legal regime I can imagine him as a content law-abiding citizen. That doesn't fit neatly into the law/chaos divide. He doesn't fit neatly into a good/evil framework either (the only thing we can say he is that he is a deontologist and not a consequentialist). The character is meant to be morally ambiguous and to leave readers ambivalent about his behavior. The correct answer to the question, "is Rorschach lawful or chaotic?" may be, "yes." [/QUOTE]

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