The no kill rule is not about Bruce just uwu not wanting to become a murderer it’s about knowing that no person is morally infallible and omniscient and you cannot be judge jury executioner and that you are allowed to keep this last bit of innocence that you do not have to live with the burden of someone else’s crime you shouldn’t have to give away a part of yourself just because someone else decides to commit a horrible crime it’s not about whether the Joker deserves death it’s about whether someone should bear the burden of becoming a murderer none of you fuckers know why the death penalty is bad
do you think a Batman who holds little kids to get them to safety can pick them up with the same two hands that took a life? Don’t they deserve better? Doesn’t he?
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Batman shouldn’t kill because that allows you to trust him. No matter how bad the fuck up whether intentional or not he’s not a cop he’s not gonna pull a gun on you
On that note, ACAB
He wouldn’t be Batman if he killed but something along the lines of the Punisher and all those types of characters which defeats the point of Batman as a character
In a city as cruel as Gotham, the bravest thing to be is kind and forgiving and believing in second, third and fourth chances
Honestly I think the answer as to why he can't kill is really simple
He can't handle it. Because a lot of people, in fact, cannot handle taking a life. The guilt would fucking ruin him, just like the guilt ruined Cass Cain. It doesn't matter who it is, or why, he just simply cannot handle taking a life.
Bruce Wayne dedicated to his entire life to making sure that nothing like the night his parents got killed ever happens.
He’s waging war on the concept of murder.
That’s not a swtich he can just flip whenever he wants
