Anonymous asked: I was somewhat outraged by Rogue saying Magneto killing the Red Skull makes him as bad as him. Not only is it incredibly stupid (I DESPISE the "if you kill him you're no better than him cliché"), but it's an insult to real people who've had to kill in special situations, like soldiers, cops or people in peril. To say that killing a genocidal nazi whose an active threat makes you as bad as him is like saying the soldiers that risked their lives to kill terrorists are as bad as them.
I have to say that I think there’s a vast difference between a soldier killing a terrorist in the line of duty and Magneto brutally and with his bare hands dashing the Red Skull’s head to bits with a rock. The latter is well beyond the scope of what is required, and if the soldier in question did something like it, at the very least there’d be a formal inquiry if not a full court martial.
But court martial would be if the individual was part of a military, security agency group or police. Magneto isn`t part of any of this groups neither is he part of the Avengers or X-men. He`s essentially a vigilante. Also can we really compare a normal person with a fictional one with the power to kill/manipulate practically every and any person on the planet? Your analogy doesn`t work Mr Brevoort. A more acurate one, if we want to use a real world analogy would be if it´s correct to kill someone who is about to launch a number of nuclear weapons around the planet.
