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<blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4706148" data-attributes="member: 50304">That's not really true. You get a little more insight into what makes him tick when he beats those bullies taunting him about his mother to a bloody pulp. He doesn't go after criminals specifically. He attacks the Malefactor. He doesn't target the people who break the laws of man, but rather people who violate his perception of Natural Law.While he despises drug-users and prostitutes he doesn't go around beating them up or killing them. They've made their own beds using their own free will in his mind, and he's not there to stop them. Condemn them? Sure. Restrain their liberties? Never.When I look at Rorschach I see a mash-up of various American Founding Fathers given severe mental / emotional trauma and some vague superpowers thrown into a dystopian, authoritarian world on the brink of nuclear war.Rorschach sees Governing Authority as a necessary evil he'd rather be rid of. He takes a Thomas Jefferson approach to liberties in a belief that the right to swing one's fist ends at another person's nose. Those who violate that Natural Law forfeit their intrinsic rights as human beings.He's a Neutral character who desires a Chaotic Good world with an incredible intensity. Rorschach is also terribly conflicted in his conception because he's made an avatar / Straw Man for Real World philosophies in a Fantasy World composed of cardboard sets and Straw Man geo-political figures and governments. Watchmen is great and all, but it is ultimately a reflection of emotional and intellectual boogie-men of a past era - kind of like Gulliver's Travels.- Marty Lund</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlund, post: 4706148, member: 50304"] That's not really true. You get a little more insight into what makes him tick when he beats those bullies taunting him about his mother to a bloody pulp. He doesn't go after criminals specifically. He attacks the Malefactor. He doesn't target the people who break the laws of man, but rather people who violate his perception of Natural Law. While he despises drug-users and prostitutes he doesn't go around beating them up or killing them. They've made their own beds using their own free will in his mind, and he's not there to stop them. Condemn them? Sure. Restrain their liberties? Never. When I look at Rorschach I see a mash-up of various American Founding Fathers given severe mental / emotional trauma and some vague superpowers thrown into a dystopian, authoritarian world on the brink of nuclear war. Rorschach sees Governing Authority as a necessary evil he'd rather be rid of. He takes a Thomas Jefferson approach to liberties in a belief that the right to swing one's fist ends at another person's nose. Those who violate that Natural Law forfeit their intrinsic rights as human beings. He's a Neutral character who [B]desires[/B] a Chaotic Good world with an incredible intensity. Rorschach is also terribly conflicted in his conception because he's made an avatar / Straw Man for Real World philosophies in a Fantasy World composed of cardboard sets and Straw Man geo-political figures and governments. Watchmen is great and all, but it is ultimately a reflection of emotional and intellectual boogie-men of a past era - kind of like Gulliver's Travels. - Marty Lund [/QUOTE]

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