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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5846678" data-attributes="member: 59506">First, because Humans are not prescient. Nobody knows what someone will or won't do in the Future. And Second, because it's not as easy a thing as you might think.   This maybe true for a fictional character. And in real life is also likely true for the masses who didn't actually participate in the killing (like the people of Gotham). But for the person who does this in real life, it is not that simple. Killing someone changes you, even when justified or in self defense. Ask any cop or soldier who's ever had to kill someone and they'll tell you, they do not just go home and sleep well. They may understand logically that it was something that had to be done, but it stays with you and weighs upon you, and never really completely goes away...ever. Taking a life is a monumental thing. You're not just killing them in the moment, you are killing them in the future. Everything they would have been is now gone. And no matter how unemotional a person may be or seem, unless one is a true psychopath, it's virtually impossible to not feel an involuntary empathy for the person they just killed. You see it in the dying persons eyes. You see the end of thought, personality, character, being...LIFE...in those eyes.  And in that moment, justified or not, necessary or not, self defense or not, it is an extremely hard thing to see, and impossible to forget. Once the adrenaline is gone, once the rage or fear has faded, the true impact is always felt and cannot be escaped. There is always a price.</blockquote>

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