misslane38
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Actually I suffered from PTSD when I was 9 growing up in Baghdad and as a doctor I do come across it on occasion (not often) so I know enough, but I'm by no means an expert. One thing I know for sure is that one size doesn't fit all and different people can and often exhibit different symptoms of PTSD depending on their personality and experiences.
One size doesn't fit all. So is it possible that Bruce's PTSD might have manifested in a way that would made him obsessive, hypervigilant, and hypercompetent towards eliminating what his mind had identified as the source of his feelings of fear and powerlessness rather than direct those same energies towards investigating a man he had already dehumanized and objectified?
Yeah in order to achieve his goal of killing a god like-being who is way above his weight class batman would need to know everything about him, not because he's interested in his life but rather because he's interested in the aspects of his life that would make him vulnerable.
Batman did use his brain to identify the thing that would make Superman most vulnerable. It really did turn out that the kryptonite was the best weapon to defeat Superman, so I don't see the flawed logic or thinking. Batman invested his investigative energies on the kryptonite, and the kryptonite allowed Batman to come just short of accomplishing his goal. In fact, his kryptonite was good enough to kill Doomsday.
No that's not the main reason, Luthor did what batman should've done and investigated superman inorder to know how to beat him. Also I got the impression that he hated superman BECAUSE he viewed him as the embodiment of god, the very same concept that didn't save him from his daddy's fists.
Lex hated Superman because he did not believe in God. God as an omnipotent source of good was a lie. God was a lie because he wasn't good enough or powerful enough to save Lex from his father's abuse. So in order to prove that Superman was similarly flawed and impotent, Lex devised an experiment to expose Superman's shortcomings as God.
And by investigating superman he'd likely have a better understanding of how to confront superman and that having PTSD doesn't negate that fact.
Yes, it does. Having PTSD explains why Bruce did not once consider Superman as human. He even tells Superman that he sees him as neither god nor man. Bruce was blocked from investigating the possibility of Superman's humanity because he did not see him as human. He was fixated on the alien because it allowed him to objectify Superman as the focal point of all of his rage and feelings of powerlessness.