I understand the "Jason not pushing Garzonas adds to Jason's choice to run away" reading but I don't like that it typically acts like Jason would have no reason to run if he had pushed Garzonas.
Jason overidentifies with victims. We know this. Jason sees himself and his experiences and the experiences of people he knew in the victims he encounters as Robin. (Whether or not you subscribe to Jason as a victim of childhood SA, Gloria and the dumpster murder victims all resemble more modern depictions of Catherine Todd, who was also shown to be taken advantage of by men who knew she was vulnerable and Jason was aware of it). So when Bruce says that Judy is wrong to avenge her sister, when he says that the corrupt justice system that allowed the murderer to go free to begin with is the basis of the morality Batman and Robin must adhere to, when the best plan of action he has for stopping Garzonas is deporting him so he can continue to rape and brutalize women where Bruce doesn't have to look at the victims- Jason does not perceive it as Bruce talking about random women or case files.
Jason can not detach himself or compartmentalize like Bruce does because it is literally retraumatizing him every time he goes out onto those streets to see powerful men abuse women and get away with it. So what Jason hears is Bruce, The Batman, his dad, saying that Jason and his mom would be acceptable victims if their circumstances were different. Bruce can not, will not, protect him. Bruce sees the lives and possible redemption of the people who have hurt them as equally important or even more prioritized than their safety and closure. Because the law said so. And everyone knows illegal vigilantes Batman and Robin have to fight for and work with the law!! I would not want to stay with that man either! That man who believes that even if I didn't push him, even if I just didn't save the seriel rapist, I would still be guilty. Because retaliation from victims is equally as bad as the initial abuse of course.
That is the system Jason is upholding as Robin. That is the man Jason earnestly believed would have saved him and gave him the chance to save others. How could you stand to live with someone who, if it were you in those files, your body in the dumpster, your neck snapped from the noose, would reduce your remains to a clue and then, when the mystery is over and justice neglected for the pride and status of wealthy men, go back home to his big warm house safe from the misery and community of the city he claims to protect. And what did ADITF do but prove Jason right.
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