“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” At the For aĬouple of centuries, we’ve all known Lord Acton’s famous observation: Stand up to and stop bad guys doing bad things.Īnd there is one more lesson in those pages, at the very end. Just look at the moral lessons imparted in a mere eleven pages of pictures and words: Stop the bad guys at every opportunity in the future. He vows to never let that happen again, to If Spidey had stopped the guy, his Uncleīen would still be alive.
#See you in the funny pages meaning tv#
HeĬhases down the thief and catches him - and it’s the same robber he’d seen at the TV studio. Then he heads for home, and finds out that his beloved uncle (and fatherįigure - Spidey’s an orphan) has been killed in a botched robbery. Why should he care? He’s in it for the money. He goes on TV, and is becoming a big star - so big, that when a robber runs past him, he just ignores the guy instead of stopping him.
#See you in the funny pages meaning professional#
Uses them as a masked professional wrestler, to make money. In a scientific accident and gains superhuman powers. Let’s take a couple of examples of lessons learned from superheroes:Įveryone knows Spidey’s origin story. If given the opportunity to help someone else, take it. Sometimes, it would haveīeen easier and more convenient to not do the right thing, but you And sometimes there had to be a price to be paidįor doing the right thing, but that was OK. One didn’t do the right thing in the hopes of rewards, they Heck, sometimes that made things even tougher for Simplyīeing a hero and doing heroic good deeds didn’t mean that things went Sometimes good deeds had to be their own reward. Occasionally, they could be rehabilitated, but there were Sometimes even understand why they did bad things - but they were stillīad guys. Were treated to explorations of why the bad guys were bad, and we could Later, the theory that “no man is a villain in his own eyes,” we Likewise, their foes were pretty much unabashedlyĮvil. Sometimes in conflicts with other heroes - but they were almost always Were clearly good - sometimes not totally good, sometimes in error, Started changing, I’m told) - could be relied upon to emphasize certainĬlear definitions of Good and Evil. But think about it.Ĭomic books - especially from the pre-90’s days (when things really Specifically, superhero comic books, from the 1970'sĪnd 1980's (with occasional back issues - thank you, yard sales!).Īhead and mock these, a genuine American invention and art form. Speaking strictly for myself, I found myself educated on such matters from a rather unlikely source: comic books. But that was too blatantly self-serving, even for me, so instead I took the meta angle he seemed to be implying: how can people get ideas of Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, and other such concepts without God and religion? Interested in their motivation behind such works.Īs an agnostic who’s closing in on his 8th gallon pin for donating blood, I thought about fielding that one myself. Inferring that atheists cannot be virtuous or charitable, I am just Works? What would be their justification for acting thusly? I am not #25, as to what motivation an atheist might have in doing charitable Intended whatsoever) I am curious to know, referencing your comment at In the interest of keeping this discussion going (and with no offense (I feel like I’m back in elementary school) started discussing morality both with and without religious underpinnings. But one particular digression got me thinking - when DaveK and James H. In my discussion about Rob Port’s “God was the first libertarian” theory, comments went wildly - and predictably - askew.
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