#i actually criticised batman for this in my dissertation

[the-gamling-dog]

My dissertation was on Just War, but I cited the Batman Encyclopaedia just the same. At some point, demanding to keep your own hands clean in the face of preventable human misery is just indefensible.

And Batman doesn't even need to kill the Joker, he has batfam lining up around the block willing to do it! But he'd rather batarang his lost Robin than let the Joker stop hurting people.

Anyway, 14 years after graduation I realised their toxic relationship is the definition of a comic book version of the trolley problem.