Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-15895329-20171029005512/@comment-1705775-20171105204958

RedArcher wrote: I'm not happy about it at all. It's like proving that people like Quentin, Evelyn and Adrian were right and they're NOT. Giving Oliver a page is a VERY disrespectful thing, the man's been through enough.

maybe but please explain how skinning people alive can be excused? it crosses a moral event horizon.. we aren't saying criminals are right or that they don't (in some cases) deserve what they get but in most fiction (especially superhero-based) torture and murder is a firm "no-no".. it's what separated Batman from Two-Face and the like.

Punisher types blur the line even further but in most cases Punisher is not (despite his popularity) a "good guy" at all, he's like Dexter - a serial-killer (perhaps one we can sympathise with but still a serial killer).

I'm an outsider as I have not followed Arrow but I'm just going by the general rule that torturing people and cold-blooded murder is waaaaay beyond acceptable vigilanteism and verges on terrorism, regardless of reasons.. (heck look at Mister Freeze, he has VERY good reasons for what he did, he's still a villain because no matter how tragic he was or how vile his enemies were he simply went too far in vengeance).