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[-] Prouvaire@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly Dr.manhattan was kinda dumb. “Oh I need to stop humanity from nuking itself” meanwhile I demonstrate easy ability to travel to other planets.

Doctor Manhattan's ability to save the human race wasn't the issue. He was basically a god. It was his willingness. He didn't feel the need to stop humanity doing anything:

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

They're unquantifiable to us. Manhattan had a brain the size of a planet; certainly he could have answered the riddle of "what defines life." That part bothered me.

But you're right, his problem was attitude.

[-] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea tmhow to quote things. But dude that last part is such a shit take. There's no structural difference between my phone as with a full charge and my phone without, why do I care, because it's fucking dead.

[-] raptir@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

The point is he's so far beyond humanity that he doesn't care. He relates less with humans than you do with your phone.

[-] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If he just gave zero shits about humanity, then why did he kill Rorschach.

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