by cyranorox » April 14th, 2008, 4:29 am
I loved the old Adam West Batman- that velvet voice! never mind that he didn't fill out his tights too well.
I have a real problem with your 'only God can justify', and the belief that God's command justifies a wrong. It certainly does not. God, for all his omnipotence, cannot decree a wrong to be a right. To think so is Voluntarism, a serious error and a slander of God, leading to moral nihilism.
My favorite superhero is V [from the film, rather different from the gn]. He cannot reveal his secret identity, because he has none. He is only himself. What is under the mask, he asserts, is not himself at all. Further, he is said [but does not confirm] to have forgotten his identity in the trauma of medical experiments.
And much of the dialogue directly confronts the question of lies. he constructs an elaborate 'lie' of imprisonment, but claims [and the story confirms] that through the lie/fiction, truth emerged. His broadcast speech tells the forbidden truth to a population soaked in lies.
nevertheles, as with a far greater text, the central question is, 'who is he?' V protects his [identity] even to death, and, I'd argue, beyond. Without knowing who he is, solving the riddle, we cant assess your question, 'what gives him the right?'. Superman and the caped crowd [V wears a cloak, not a cape - it's cold in London in November] are disappointing precisely because the identity revealed is insufficient to grant them the rights they implicitly claim.
silence said: "I know what it is like to not be able to tell people the full truth because A: they won't accept it, B: they are not ready for it, C: they don't want to hear it, D: I know I'm not supposed to tell them". Alas, this might be so, or you might simply be running into, or avoiding, disagreement. I'm ready to hear anything. Perhaps you'd like to state some of these truths [assuming they are not simply personal secrets] or your basis of knowing that you ought not to tell them.