misslane38
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I disagree. Options are still choices, and just because Jor-El says something doesn't mean that Clark has to go through with it. That's Donner Jor-El -- the guy who tells his son it's either Superman or love, and if he wants to love then he best get rid of his powers. If he wants to be Superman, then he can't have a girlfriend. The guy who, when Superman walks into the Fortress, downloads him with his entire being including telling him to have a secret identity. Alternatively, in the DCEU, Jonathan and Jor-El give Kal suggestions and options, but it's Clark who makes the ultimate choice. Indeed, Jor-El's dream of Kal being a bridge is something Kal considers when Zod offers him that choice. When he talks to Martha, look at what she says and he says:
Even Jor-El believes in co-existence and urges Zod to consider it:
Clark would like to be able to be a bridge and to share Earth with the Kryptonians, and so would Jor-El, but he has to make a choice. When Jor-El suggests being a bridge, he doesn't define exactly what that means or what that looks like. Clark is the one who ultimately decides what that will be, and he decides that Zod's method of terraforming the Earth is a step too far and that a true co-existence is impossible. He then has to attempt to banish Zod and the rest to the Phantom Zone, and when all but Zod remain, he takes Zod out. The choices before him weren't black and white, and he had the agency to make them as he saw fit.
Huh? You just got done belittling Jor-El for merely giving Clark options, but then you praise the Amazons for pushing the notion that protecting people should be done out of a sense of duty and based on deciding who is deserving according to them. How does that work? Also, the Kents never said don't trust people in general. Remember when Martha told this to Clark?
Jonathan spoke of the future as a time when Clark and the world would be ready; their advice was as parents to a child not to an adult. They just see the world as Diana comes to see it:
as filled with people who are light and dark and who are capable of making choices that are in the light. Diana doesn't even trust humanity after killing Ludendorff fails. She rejects them and would've continued to do so had Ares not shown up and Steve not taught her a lesson she apparently didn't already know.
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