Thread:Love Robin/@comment-24938348-20160809170328/@comment-2059440-20160822191019

may I add a late addition? Values Dissident applies as this was set in Veitnam War.. controversies aside, it was a different time period to our own and the rules by which society ran where very different.. when he punched and spat at soldiers it was perfectly legal and "ethical" by the standards of that generation.. admitedly events like Veitnam contributed to people seeing physical abuse in the army as unethical in later years but that's another thing..

basically, we can't judge past societies by our 21st century mindsets of ethics (that'd be moral absolutism taken to extremes and makes us biased by extension.. something wikis such as our own aren't meant to be).

this is why we got rid of the Slave Master from Prince of Egypt, if he was in the modern age he'd of stayed but he was not.. he was from a time-period when everything he did was seen as acceptable.. it doesn't mean they are nice people by any stretch and abuse is always wrong.. it's just culture, time period and (in fiction) the universe was inhabits really needs to be taken into account as one man's society may see a "villain" when another man's society simply sees a "normal citizen" and so on..